Its a TEXT is not HTML issue. Text has newlines HTML has <br /> and <p>.
You'll have to move beyond scaffolding to do what you want. Geoff -- http://lemoncake.wordpress.com On Jul 11, 12:33 pm, mussond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, I'm using CakePHP to display a database with German to > English translations. It only has one table in it so I've used > scaffolding to get it up and running, which was working fine until I > noticed that my Comments field is being displayed as a string. > > The Comments coloum is of type TEXT in the SQL and when I edit the row > or add a new one I can view it as a TEXT field with the new lines, but > when I view the list view the new lines aren't displayed. > > encase I just lost you heres and example: > > This is what is displayed in the table list view: time use -> nach = > after. Going 2 some country -> nach = in. > > But I entered the value like: > > time use -> nach = after. > Going 2 some country -> nach = in. > > The above is how it views if I edit the value. > > So I'd like to find out if I can display this with the line breaks. > I'm wondering if its a HTML table issue or how the scaffolding returns > the values from the database. > > Has anyone come across this before? > > Thanks > > Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
