Re: formatting lf's and the blob

remember that line feeds in HTML are <br> tags. There is a function called nl2br() that you can shuv in your blob and have HTML formatted text to put on your web page. -jeremy brand _______________________________________________________________________ GnuPG Fingerprint: 9F5E 95E0 1CC2 E054 84EA 6099 8ACD 9DBA D2C0 5EA9 _ http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for more __ On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Floyd Baker wrote: > Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:55:51 -0400 > From: Floyd Baker <fbaker@olm1.com> > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] formatting lf's and the blob > > > Hi.. > > I see in the archives that the text or blob type should retain the line feeds of > the text placed in them. It isn't working that way for me. > > I have a text box form inputting text to a mysql 'text' field. When I select it > and print it to the website, the line feeds are not there... The > query/printout scripting is being called to the webpage with an include line. > > On the other hand; when I pull it back to the text box for editing, simply using > 'print $textname' between the textarea tags, everything appears as it should... > > I've tried nl2br() and other formatting attempts to no avail. > > Is there a problem using include? Can someone say what might be going wrong? > > Thanks. > > Floyd > -- > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >