RE: [PHP] Retaining formatting problem[Scanned]

--- Michael Egan <MEgan@3tc.org.uk> wrote: > I've experienced the same problem. It's not that the line returns > disappear - they will still be retained but stored as /n or /r. > > You'll need to find a way of replacing the line breaks with a html > paragraph break - assuming your required output is html. Perhaps > some of the regexp functions will help in this - I haven't got the > code I used for this to hand. You mean something like the nl2br() function? > > HTH, > > Michael Egan > > -----Original Message----- > From: brenton@lefevrehs.sa.edu.au > [mailto:brenton@lefevrehs.sa.edu.au] > Sent: 08 July 2003 10:30 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Retaining formatting problem[Scanned] > > > Hello everyone, > > I have a long running problem that i just want to get covered, I > have a standard text box for people to insert long lengths of text. > > This text box is in a standard <input type="text"> but when I > insert it into the database the line returns dissapear, eg > > "this > > little amount of > > text" > > will enter like > > "this little amount of text will enter like" > > Please help me it is p!!$$!ng me right off :P > > Cheers in advance > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > ===== Mark Weinstock mark_weinstock@yahoo.com *************************************** You can't demand something as a "right" unless you are willing to fight to death to defend everyone else's right to the same thing. *************************************** __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com