Re: Carriage returns in a field
| From: | Torsten Roehr | Date: | Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:59:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Carriage returns in a field | ||
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"Brian Dunning" <brian@briandunning.com> wrote in message
news:E8A0F19E-978F-11D8-8570-000A95BD6AE4@briandunning.com...
> I am using a <textarea> entry field and I want returns to be preserved
> when that form output is shown on a page later. Currently returns are
> not being preserved: they just output as a space so the text is all one
> big paragraph.
>
> 1) Do I need to do anything special when I write the <textarea> to
> mysql, and
No.
>
> 2) Do I need to do anything special when I output the query result to
> preserve the returns that were typed?
Use nl2br():
echo nl2br($text);
This will insert a <br> at any linefeed position.
Regards, Torsten
>
> TIA,
> - Brian