Re: textarea new line to mysql database

At 11:19 AM -0400 5/15/09, Robert Cummings wrote:

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 10:54 -0400, tedd wrote: 4. Or, listen to me (who is somewhere between Rob/Stuart and Sterex)

and use either the <pre> tag or the nlbr() function depending upon what you want to do with the output. Both solutions [1 and 2] provide different ways to handle data. Number [3] simply creates another problem you, or someone else, will have to deal with later on.

Actually, after reading the other posts with respect to what he's trying to do, I would use nl2br() unless I specifically needed <pre></pre>. Cheers, Rob. --

That would be my first choice as well. However, one can style a <pre> tag whereas it's very difficult (if not impossible) to style what goes in between <br /> tags. Also, one can generate validation errors using "<br />" because there are three different varieties of the tag, namely "<br>", "<br />", and "<br/>" -- all of which can be used in different settings. I don't remember which doctypes go with which version (xhtml requires />), but I've run into that problem before. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com