Re: [PHP] entering in text data and losing the \n

From: Chris Shiflett (shiflett_at_php.net)
Date: 11/30/03 

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:17:07 -0800 (PST)
To: Randy Johnson <rjohnson@seasidepc.com>, php-general@lists.php.net

--- Randy Johnson <rjohnson@seasidepc.com> wrote:
> I have a form with a text area.
>
> When the user submits the data it is saved to a mysql database in a
> field of type text.
>
> When I extract the data from the database and display it in php it
> loses the line return and the data is all crammed together.

It doesn't lose it. In HTML, a newline isn't rendered as a newline by a
browser unless it is surrounded by pre tags. You probably want to use the
br tag instead. PHP has a function to help with this:

http://www.php.net/nl2br

Hope that helps.

Chris

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