Large text fields

Hi, I am working on a website using php3 and mySQL. On one page in the site administration is inputting new articles, via a form, with fields such as $title, $date, $article, etc. These are then passed to mySQL, to be viewed on another page by users. This all works fine, except for the text of the article itself. When the text is typed in to the textfield on the form, it exist of several paragraphs, with blank lines in between, but when it is viewed from the database on another page all the paragraph breaks and blank lines are gone, and all the text is displayed in just one long continued block. What do I do to preserve the format in which the text is typed? With the different paragraf breaks and blank lines? Thanks for the help! Claus