Re: Separating paragraphs in mySQL?
| From: | Doug Semig | Date: | Mon, 09 Apr 2001 15:24:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Separating paragraphs in mySQL? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.db |
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nl2br() is useful in such cases.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/html/function.nl2br.html
Doug
At 11:32 AM 4/9/01 +0800, sam wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have this field filled up from within a text area. Something the same as
>that on message boards but something that has more characters in it. I have
>it set to get up to 1500 characters.
>
>My main problem is that although I tried inserting separate paragraphs (by
>pressing the return/enter key when every paragraph gets finished), when I
>tried viewing them on PHP pages, they still show as one whole paragraph
>without any line breaks (\n).
>
>My question, how can I save the entries on the database and still show the
>"\n" or next lines, thus being able to separate different paragraphs from
>each other.
>
>thanks in advance.
>
>the.sam