Re: BREAK into the DB

Also see wordwrap( ). "Blue Presley" <bluebaby92877@Hotmail.com> wrote in message news:20020715105951.87817.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > the function you are looking for is called nl2br(). Translated it means > 'new line to <BR>.' when you pull you text from your database run it > through this and it will be correctly formatted for HTML to read correctly. > See php documentation for further discussion and examples. > > blue > > > "César aracena" <icaam@icaam.com.ar> wrote in message > news:000601c22bbc$7b79c8a0$cfc405c8@gateway... > Hi all. I have this DB where I'm storing this sometimes large amount of > text into a TEXT field, but I can't seem to find the way to BREAK lines > so it won't make my browser go 3000 pixels wide when that text is > printed. About this, I have two questions: > > 1) What should I use to break the text into lines at the DB so HTML can > read them fine? and > 2) How should I make the TEXT INPUT BOX so the visitor doesn't have to > type <br> or something after 20 words or so? Is there a way that PHP can > count and break text strings by itself prior storing? > > Thanks in advance, > > Cesar Aracena > CE / MCSE+I > Neuquen, Argentina > +54.299.6356688 > +54.299.4466621 > > > > >