Re: keep textformating ?

The only text formatting you're likely to have in a text field from a html form is line breaks (\n). So, to keep the formatting of these breaks, insert the text into the DB as is, then on pulling it out, convert \n's to <br />'s using nl2br($string), so that the "newlines" appear within a HTML page. Justin French on 08/07/02 11:28 PM, Hawk (hw2k@barrysworld.com) wrote: > Lets say I have a guestbook, and I want the text the visitors write in it be > saved in a database(mysql) and when retrieved, if should have the same > textformating, I guess this is a really basic thing, but I don't know what > to look for :) > I've caught \n and ereg*, but I'm not sure that's the thing, help bitte .) > > Håkan > >