If you have a bunch of text that is properly formatted with carriage
returns/linefeeds between the paragraphs and you then try to send this to a
browser, the carriage returns/linefeeds will be ignored and you wind up with
one big paragraph. You could surround the whole thing with <pre> and
</pre>, but the nl2br($string) function will nicely replace each linefeed
with the <br> tags and display what you want in the browser.
Thus, you can store several paragraphs of data in database text field with
the CR/LF, but when it is time to show this on a page, run it though
nl2br(). This way, you have the convenience of editing the field's data
normally, but the formatting flows through to the screen.
I'll stop typing now, since I am getting a little long in the tooth.
John
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> Where exactly do I need to insert this?
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