RE: [PHP] echo question

You are looking for the function nl2br() Information here: http://www.newbienetwork.net/article.php?sid=70 And here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php See echo statement below for example implementation. Jason Lotito www.NewbieNetwork.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Louis Brooks [mailto:louis@callook.org] > Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 8:01 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] echo question > > > Hi All: > > I need to print out several paragraphs of information stored > in a MySql > field to a web page. To do this I am using: > > $db = mysql_connect("localhost", "dbase", "password"); > mysql_select_db("dbase",$db); $sql = "SELECT update FROM > members WHERE username = 'Don'"; $query = mysql_query($sql); > $results = mysql_fetch_array($query); $text = $results["update"]; > echo nl2br($text); > > but it does not insert the returns between the paragraphs. I > think I need > to tell it to insert a <p> in place of the return. There is a > way to do > this as I have seen it on the PHP site when I was searching > for something > else. Of course now that I need it I can't find the example. > Can someone > please help me figure this out? > > Thank you, > > Louis Brooks > > > -- > 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 > >