[PHP-DB] TEXT fields without line breaks

2001-07-06 Thread Mat Marlow
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

Re: [PHP-DB] TEXT fields without line breaks

2001-07-06 Thread John S. Huggins
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

RE: [PHP-DB] TEXT fields without line breaks

2001-07-06 Thread Kevin Johnson
the database and output the data, swap your special newline chars with \n. A bit of a pain, but it works. Kevin Johnson KJ -Original Message- From: Mat Marlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 8:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] TEXT fields without line