RE: [PHP-DB] textarea data and printing
| From: | John W. Holmes | Date: | Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:27:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DB] textarea data and printing | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.db |
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> We are accepting Detailed description of the item in
> <Textarea></Textarea>.
>
> Is there any function which can return full words without breaking the
> lines. The data is stored in a PostgreSQL database in varchar field.
>
> item_detail_description varchar(200)
>
> I am assuming that the user need not press the 'enter' key at the end
of
> each line. Hence by using the 'carriage return' code this function
> cannot be written. I was interested in knowing if any such function
> already exists.
I don't understand what you want. Perhaps you're looking for nl2br()?
www.php.net/nl2br
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