Inserting data from a textarea or something? If so, have a look at http://www.php.net/nl2br - probably what you're after.
Cheers Jon -----Original Message----- From: Rodney Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 January 2002 17:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] carriage returns Sorry for the newbie question but I can't find it in the docs. How do I preserve carriage returns when inserting into and extracting data from a mysql db? I thought htmlspecialchars() would do the trick but it doesn't. thanks -- 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]