Re: textbox+database

"Mehdi Achour" <didou@keliglia.com> wrote in message news:3F283A11.1060104@keliglia.com... > Patrik Fomin wrote: > > hi, i have a textbox, after someone puts text into it, it saves into the > > database, > > <textarea cols="2" rows="2"></textarea> > > > > > > when it saves to the database the formattion in the textbox dosent work > > properly, > > eg: > > i add this: > > > > Test > > > > Test > > > > > > Hello > > > > > > and when i retrive the text from the database it looks like this: > > TestTestHello > > > > is there anyway to save (enter formattions)? > > > > echo nl2br($data_from_database); // see php.net/nl2br > > Mehdi Not to be picky but this is considerablly more reliable.. // Convert end of line to <br>.. $str = ereg_replace("\n|\r|\r\n", '<br>', $str); // Convert <br> to end of line.. Not to be picky but this is considerablly more reliable.. $str = ereg_replace("<br>", "\n", $str); - Kevin