Respecting line breaks?

[william]

Hi all,

I'm try to make a forum, in which people can add messages to a
discussion. I use a textarea for input and store this text in a
database. When I read the text from the database and display it with PHP
all the line breaks entered by the sender have disappeared. Can anyone
tell me how to solve this problem?

Thanx,
WJ

[Jonny]

Try using the <pre></pre> tags around the outputted text.

"william" <wjz@wirehub.nl> wrote in message
news:WdmAc.2800$D67.769@amsnews02.chello.com...

> Hi all,
>
> I'm try to make a forum, in which people can add messages to a
> discussion. I use a textarea for input and store this text in a
> database. When I read the text from the database and display it with PHP
> all the line breaks entered by the sender have disappeared. Can anyone
> tell me how to solve this problem?
>
> Thanx,
> WJ
>

[Andy Barfield]

william wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm try to make a forum, in which people can add messages to a
> discussion. I use a textarea for input and store this text in a
> database. When I read the text from the database and display it with PHP
> all the line breaks entered by the sender have disappeared. Can anyone
> tell me how to solve this problem?
>
> Thanx,
> WJ
>

You need to replace textual line breaks with html line breaks -

[url]http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php[/url]

Regards,

Andy

[eclipsboi]

You have to understand one thing about HTML. Unless the line breaks
are either a) Placed inside of <pre></pre> tags or b) replaced with
either <br> or <p>, they are ignored. Similar to how most line breaks,
and whitespace, is ignored in PHP. Like in some other posts, you could
simply use nl2br() to convert the line breaks from your user's input
into <br> tags.

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:24:38 GMT, william <wjz@wirehub.nl> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm try to make a forum, in which people can add messages to a
>discussion. I use a textarea for input and store this text in a
>database. When I read the text from the database and display it with PHP
> all the line breaks entered by the sender have disappeared. Can anyone
>tell me how to solve this problem?
>
>Thanx,
>WJ