The line breaks may be there, but HTML will not render them.
Try this:
$outputstring = nl2br($stringfromDB);
print("<p>$outputstring</p>");
or something like this to see if the newlines will convert to <br> and
render correctly.
John
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Mat Marlow wrote:
>-Hi all,
>-(I'm not sure if this is the right place to submit this but I'm having
>-problems with the php.general group)
>-
>-I am in desperate need for a solution to HTML text fields not storing new
>-lines. I'm storing news articles in a database but all the text just ends up
>-in a big block because it ignores line breaks. Is there a way around this
>-without having to upload text files?
>-
>-Thanks,
>-
>-Mat
>-
>-
>-
>-
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