nl2br() is useful in such cases. http://www.php.net/manual/en/html/function.nl2br.html Doug At 11:32 AM 4/9/01 +0800, sam wrote: >Hello, > >I have this field filled up from within a text area. Something the same as >that on message boards but something that has more characters in it. I have >it set to get up to 1500 characters. > >My main problem is that although I tried inserting separate paragraphs (by >pressing the return/enter key when every paragraph gets finished), when I >tried viewing them on PHP pages, they still show as one whole paragraph >without any line breaks (\n). > >My question, how can I save the entries on the database and still show the >"\n" or next lines, thus being able to separate different paragraphs from >each other. > >thanks in advance. > >the.sam -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
