It should be storing them unless you are doing something to the data before inserting it into the database. Have you tried outputting the data through nl2br() ?http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php Ethan Schroeder ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ciaron Nixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 9:22 AM Subject: [PHP] multiline text areas and mysql doesn't work :( > I'm trying to insert the conents of a submitted textarea into a field of a > db but it seems to be stripping the control characters or not fomatting them > properly. The record updates fine but when I display it all the newlines are > gone ie the whole field appears on 1 line. > Any ideas how to get it to store the control chars? > > -Ciaron > > > > -- > PHP General 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] > -- PHP General 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]
