how do I display <br> where database record has new paragraph?

[NotGiven]

I have a form that inserts records in a database. When I display records,
the paragraphs don't show up.

I am using dreamweaver MX, PHP, and MySQL.

[Chris Hope]

Re: how do I display &lt;br&gt; where database record has new paragraph?

NotGiven wrote:
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> I have a form that inserts records in a database. When I display records,
> the paragraphs don't show up.
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> I am using dreamweaver MX, PHP, and MySQL.[/color]

Use nl2br() - http://www.php.net/nl2br

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[Michael Fesser]

Re: how do I display &lt;br&gt; where database record has new paragraph?

.oO(NotGiven)
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>I have a form that inserts records in a database. When I display records,
>the paragraphs don't show up.
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>I am using dreamweaver MX, PHP, and MySQL.[/color]

You could use nl2br() to replace the linebreaks with HTML-linebreaks,
but the better solution would be to keep the paragraphs, i.e. to replace
double linebreaks with </p><p> (easy to do with preg_replace() or
str_replace()) and enclose the entire string with <p></p>.

For a stored string

paragraph 1\n\nparagraph 2

the result would be

<p>paragraph 1</p><p>paragraph 2</p>

Micha

[NotGiven]

thanks for your help!


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> I am using dreamweaver MX, PHP, and MySQL.
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