RE: [PHP] PHP using Forms

The below does the newline and takes care of html tags which might otherwise get parsed by the web browser. # This function is to fix the characters. It replaces all htmlentities with their &amp kind representation # and converts newlines to html breaks (<BR>) function fix($string) { return(nl2br(htmlentities($string))); } -----Original Message----- From: Jon Haworth [mailto:JHaworth@witanjardine.co.uk] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 10:16 AM To: 'Mike Mike'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP using Forms Try this: $Home = nl2br($Home); // nl2br converts newlines to <br>s See http://www.php.net/nl2br for more info. (Incidentally, I answered exactly the same question yesterday, in exactly the same way. *Please* check the list archives/last few days postings/manual before posting this sort of thing :-) HTH Jon -----Original Message----- From: Mike Mike [mailto:hatchman2000@yahoo.com] Sent: 04 May 2001 15:12 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] PHP using Forms Hello, I have a form field <TEXTAREA name="Home" ROWS=10 COLS=40><? echo $Home ?></TEXTAREA> with this data in it: My Home 11 North 5th St St. Paul MN Phone: (555) 555-5555 Fax: (555) 555-5555 E-Mail: hatchman2000@yahoo.com When submited it goes into a mysql database. The problem i'm running into is that the output looks like this after the call from the mysql database to html: My Home 11 North 5th St St. Paul MN Phone: (555) 555-5555 Fax: (555) 555-5555 E-Mail: hatchman2000@yahoo.com. How do I get it to print out with line breaks like how I have typed it into the form? Thank you --Mike __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -- 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 ********************************************************************** 'The information included in this Email is of a confidential nature and is intended only for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any disclosure, copying or distribution by you is prohibited and may be unlawful. Disclosure to any party other than the addressee, whether inadvertent or otherwise is not intended to waive privilege or confidentiality' ********************************************************************** -- 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