Re: [PHP] Line Breaks in textarea

2001-06-29 Thread David Robley

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 04:44, Nathan Cook wrote:
 Hello-

 I am selecting a value from a blob field in a mysql db.  The value
 looks like this:

 Test 12...3 \r \n br %0%D Test

 When I print that value in a TEXTAREA$value/TEXTAREA -- The
 textarea returns exactly what you see above.  I am trying to get it to
 display a line break (so that I can store the line breaks in the db). 
 If you can shed any light on this subject, please share.

 Thank You,
 Nathan Cook
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

You might want to make your textarea tag thus:

TEXTAREA WRAP=VIRTUAL$value/TEXTAREA

to show any EOLs as line breaks.

Cue RANT from Richard Lynch on TEXTAREA :-)

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[PHP] Line Breaks in textarea

2001-06-28 Thread Nathan Cook

Hello-

I am selecting a value from a blob field in a mysql db.  The value looks like
this:

Test 12...3 \r \n br %0%D Test

When I print that value in a TEXTAREA$value/TEXTAREA -- The textarea returns
exactly what you see above.  I am trying to get it to display a line break (so
that I can store the line breaks in the db).  If you can shed any light on this
subject, please share.

Thank You,
Nathan Cook
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Re: [PHP] Line Breaks in textarea

2001-06-28 Thread Alva Chew

try the function nl2br($value)

regards,
Alva Chew

Nathan Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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 Hello-

 I am selecting a value from a blob field in a mysql db.  The value looks
like
 this:

 Test 12...3 \r \n br %0%D Test

 When I print that value in a TEXTAREA$value/TEXTAREA -- The textarea
returns
 exactly what you see above.  I am trying to get it to display a line break
(so
 that I can store the line breaks in the db).  If you can shed any light on
this
 subject, please share.

 Thank You,
 Nathan Cook
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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