Newbie question about SQL result formatting

Ok, this is totally newbie but I just started messing around with PHP after programming IBM's NetData for a while. My first big problem I haven't been able to solve myself is how to format the result of an SQL query into HTML code. In the (MySQL) database, I have one field for very long texts. One test entry looks like this: -------------------------- test test test -------------------------- But when printing the result, even with HTMLENTITIES and HTMLSPECIALCHARS, just looks like: ------------------------- test test test ------------------------- How do I convert the result to HTML code, I especially want the linebreaks!! The answer is probably very simple.... /Kris