Formatting the contents of a text area form field

[monomaniac21]

Hi all

On my site I get users to enter a load of information in a textarea
box, however when i save this data to my mysql DB and then retrieve it,
it comes out without all the formatting, like new paragraphs and new
lines.

Can anyone tell me how you can capture the data entered into such a
field with all the formatting the user has entered like new paragraphs
etc?

[Charlie King]

On 15 Jan 2006 04:57:20 -0800, in
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(comp.lang.php) "monomaniac21" <ma********@msn.com> wrote:

Hi all

On my site I get users to enter a load of information in a textarea
box, however when i save this data to my mysql DB and then retrieve it,
it comes out without all the formatting, like new paragraphs and new
lines.

Can anyone tell me how you can capture the data entered into such a
field with all the formatting the user has entered like new paragraphs
etc?

You could try nl2br();
http://fr.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

e.g.

echo nl2br($bigFieldFromDatabase);
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Charlie

[Chuck Anderson]

monomaniac21 wrote:

Hi all

On my site I get users to enter a load of information in a textarea
box, however when i save this data to my mysql DB and then retrieve it,
it comes out without all the formatting, like new paragraphs and new
lines.

Can anyone tell me how you can capture the data entered into such a
field with all the formatting the user has entered like new paragraphs
etc?

Search for information on the wrap attribute for textarea.

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Chuck Anderson • Boulder, CO
http://www.CycleTourist.com
Integrity is obvious.
The lack of it is common.
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[monomaniac21]

Chuck Anderson wrote:

Search for information on the wrap attribute for textarea.

I have wrap set to "hard" it doesnt make a difference. When I look at
the phpmyadmin entry there are no tags to indicate a line break. When I
display the data from the database everything is on one line.

[monomaniac21]

Charlie i tried yours it worked great cheers