Thanks John! nl2br() works great!
On Nov 27, 11:52 am, "John David Anderson (_psychic_)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 27, 2006, at 9:34 AM, gabordemeter wrote: > > > > > > > Hi! I'll give an example to illustrate my problem: > > > I have a form which, among other fields, contains a textarea. > > > In the textarea area I write the following: > > > - abc > > > - cde > > > Basically I first write the string "- abc", then I hit [return] twice > > and then write the string "- cde". > > > After I save my form, I go to phpMyAdmin and view the respective > > record. It correctly shows "- abc" on the first row, then there's a > > blank row (due to the two returns i inserted) and then, on the third > > row it shows the string "- cde". > > > So far so good. And now the problem: > > > On another page, I want to display the above with <?php echo > > $item['Comment']['text']; ?> . > > > It shows as: > > > - abc - cde > > > The two strings are only separated by a space, so obviously the two > > returns do not show. > > > In PHP (before cake), I would solve this by doing: > > > echo <<<END > > $item['Comments']['text'] > > END;This works? Did you try it in your view? > > > > > That would print both the strings and the returns. How can I achieve > > the same result in cake? Thx!<?php echo nl2br($item['Comment']['text']); ?> > > -- John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
