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]

Re: Formatting the contents of a text area form field

On 15 Jan 2006 04:57:20 -0800, in
<1137329840.465 536.212360@z14g 2000cwz.googleg roups.com>
(comp.lang.php) "monomaniac 21" <marcrice20@msn .com> wrote:
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> 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?[/color]

You could try nl2br();

http://fr.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

e.g.

echo nl2br($bigField FromDatabase);
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Charlie

[Chuck Anderson]

Re: Formatting the contents of a text area form field

monomaniac21 wrote:
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>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?
>
>
>[/color]
Search for information on the wrap attribute for textarea.

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[monomaniac21]

Re: Formatting the contents of a text area form field


Chuck Anderson wrote:
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> Search for information on the wrap attribute for textarea.
>[/color]
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]

Re: Formatting the contents of a text area form field

Charlie i tried yours it worked great cheers