That's because the browser doesn't read the line breaks without a <br
/> tag at the end. All you need to do is this:
<?php
echo nl2br($textarea);
?>
nl4br(); will insert a <br /> tag after every new line so your browser
can display it correctly.
On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 11:07 PM, delz wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm using mysql and php but I'm having problems printing my output
> using a
> browser. It's like this, i have a form and it has a text area that has
> the
> following contents:
>
> Hello World.
> Hello World.
> Hello World.
>
> What happens is when I output the content using the php command echo,
> i.e. <?php echo "$textarea";?>
>
> the output is like this on the browser :
>
> Hello World.Hello World. Hello World.
>
> Its printing the output in one straight line.
>
> Are there any command other than "echo" that can output the same
> format as
> that given on the text area. Please help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Delz
