Hi Tony,
Thanks a lot. That solved my problem.
Regards,
Delz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Thomas" <tony@stripped>
To: <mysql@stripped>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: Text formatting
> 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
