Re: MySQL field to maintain formatting

Assuming you are using a <textarea></textarea> to allow your users to input their text you need to either use the nl2br (converts new lines to <br>) or use <pre></pre> tags, following are short examples: print nl2br($data); or print '<pre>'; print $data print '</pre>'; You can find out more about the nl2br function at http://www.php.net/manual, if you allow users to enter <b> tags then they should show up using method. Jason On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 19:34, Vernon wrote: > I'm having users post messages to a MySQL database records and want to > retain the formatting (such as carriage returns and so forth). > > I have everything actually working all except that the formatting. Messages > are being posted but when they are returned they lack the carriage returns. > I'd like to be able to make characters bold and so forth, but would settle > for the carriage returns if the rest is too difficult. > > Thanks > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php