Re: Newbie question about SQL result formatting

There we go :) If there's any consolation, you just helped NataliePortman.com become a better website :) Thx /Kris "Philip Hallstrom" <philip@adhesivemedia.com> wrote in message news:20020809140933.Q91433-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com... > see nl2br(). You might also want to convert spaces to &nbsp;'s > > On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Kristoffer Strom wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > >