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
Ive encountered this at my last job and we were using perl as our backend. Before inserting into the database, check for \n or \r and replace with a combo of chars that are mostly likely not to be typed into the text field. Examples: ][, or |43; or whatever... Then when you reread back from the