Re: carriage return/line break problem
| From: | David T-G | Date: | Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:50:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: carriage return/line break problem | ||
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Pag --
..and then Pag said...
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% At 16:46 24-08-2002 +0200, Bas Jobsen wrote:
% >use nl2br($content);
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% I assume i should use that function when sending to the page,
Right; it will convert newlines to linebreaks.
% after retrieving the text from the DB, right? Cant i do something when
That's generally when one would do it. I tend to just use <pre> tags
when I need to preserve line breaks rather than converting content,
personally.
% getting the text TO the db and then when i need it, i can just retrieve it,
% ready to be put on the page?
If you don't mind having HTML code in the database, then go ahead and
convert it a la
$content = nl2br($content) ;
before writing it to the DB and then it will be that way when it comes
out.
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% Thanks.
Sure thing!
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% Pag
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