PHP, mySQL and Text in Fields

Hi,

I want to be able to display the contents of a field, stored in a mySQL
table, to be displayed as it was entered (ie. with the carriage returns in
place).

At the moment when i display the contents of the field it puts it into one
continuous sentance.

Regards,
Neil.

Neil H wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to be able to display the contents of a field, stored in a mySQL
> table, to be displayed as it was entered (ie. with the carriage returns in
> place).
>
> At the moment when i display the contents of the field it puts it into one
> continuous sentance.
>
> Regards,
> Neil.
>
>

Either output the text as-is between PRE tags, or use the nl2br()
function to convert the newlines to BR tags.

Neil H wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to be able to display the contents of a field, stored in a mySQL
> table, to be displayed as it was entered (ie. with the carriage returns in
> place).
>
> At the moment when i display the contents of the field it puts it into one
> continuous sentance.

Only when displayed in a browser as HTML. Either display as text, or
replace line-breaks with <BR>.



--
Oli

That did the job,

Thanks.
Neil.

"Jason F." <jason.newsonly@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Neil H wrote: 
in 
one 
>
> Either output the text as-is between PRE tags, or use the nl2br()
> function to convert the newlines to BR tags.