Re: Handling Linefeeds in MySQL/PHP

Try nl2br() http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Bessette, Casey wrote: >-I am creating a content management page that uses a textarea box to enter a >-chunk of text which then is sent into the database into a text-type field. >- >-I am finding that when the data is retrieved to be shown in the browser that >-the line feeds are lost. I don't want users to have to know HTML to put >-tags in themselves. What's the best way to handle this? >- >-Can I read from the database and insert br's and p's to be put into the >-displayed HTML? Or, instead, is there a way to put the br's and p's >-immediately into the database when the record is inserted? How can I do >-this? How would the string be manipulated? >- >-Thanks for your help, >--Casey >- >--- >-PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >-To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >-For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net >-To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >- ************************************** John Huggins Virginia Net Corporation 7101 Oriole Avenue Springfield, VA 22150 703-912-6214 703-912-4831 fax jhuggins@va.net http://www.va.net/ **************************************