Try nl2br()
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Bessette, Casey wrote:
>-I am creating a content management page that uses a textarea box to enter a
>-chunk of text which then is sent into the database into a text-type field.
>-
>-I am finding that when the data is retrieved to be shown in the browser that
>-the line feeds are lost. I don't want users to have to know HTML to put
>-tags in themselves. What's the best way to handle this?
>-
>-Can I read from the database and insert br's and p's to be put into the
>-displayed HTML? Or, instead, is there a way to put the br's and p's
>-immediately into the database when the record is inserted? How can I do
>-this? How would the string be manipulated?
>-
>-Thanks for your help,
>--Casey
>-
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