RE: [PHP-DB] Line breaks from a database!

2002-07-02 Thread Ryan Jameson (USA)
Well, here's what I got, since I put the data into the table directly it had no extra slashes so it looked like this '\n' , but when retrieving it i ended up with '\\n'. I would have expected stripSlashes to work but that turned them into 'n'. Here's what I did as a workaround: function strip

Re: [PHP-DB] Line breaks from a database!

2002-07-02 Thread Maureen
Try nl2br(). ie. $var=nl2br($var); This replaces \n with "Ryan Jameson (USA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi guys, maybe I'm missing something silly but when I retrieve a string from my SQL server with '\n' in it, they are displayed literally instead of as line breaks. StripSlashes only