Re: <BR> vs \n, new lines in db
| From: | Erwin | Date: | Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:38:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: <BR> vs \n, new lines in db | ||
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> A costumer comes to me with his filemaker pro database. After a lot
> of work I transformed it into a mysql database. When displaying
> records in the browser using HTML (of course) the "new lines" and the
> forming of alineas are now neglected within a field of a certain
> record. This makes sense because there are no <BR> or <P></P> tags.
You could use the nl2br function to transform the \n into <BR>. You could
also create you're own function which transforms \n\n to <P>, because nl2br
will make <BR><BR> from \n\n...
HTH
Erwin