Re: formatting lf's and the blob

Jeremy and Lars. Yes! I was in a rut and didn't think deep enough. It looks terrific now. Thank you and thank you... One for each of you. Floyd On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:31:57 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >nl2br() formats strings, not necessarily code. > >The way you normally use nl2br() is to pass it a string: > >$foo = 'This is a string > continued > more ...'; > >Then, run: >$new_foo = nl2br($foo); > >The output is this: > >This is a string<br> > continued<br> > more ... > >-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 16:25:52 -0400 >> From: Floyd Baker <fbaker@olm1.com> >> To: jeremy brand <jeremy@nirvani.net> >> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net >> Subject: Re: [PHP] formatting lf's and the blob >> >> >> We've tried that but perhaps not in the right way...? >> >> Its in the calling page as so: <? include(nl2br("included.php3")); ?> >> This is how I've done it in the past, when calling .txt files... But this is the >> first time I've tried to call a php script to pull and print a database text >> field. >> >> Floyd >> >> >> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:00:22 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >> >> >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 >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> -- >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> > --