mySQL returns in forms

[bumcheekcity]

Quick question: I've got a dead simple form. A textbox and a textarea. When a user submits multiple paragraphs of text into the textarea, it shows up fine in PHPmyAdmin. However, when it comes to actually using PHP echo to put it on a html page, all the return breaks are broken... You probably know what I mean, but I haven't explained it very well.

The only way to get around it is to put the raw HTML in, with <p> <br> tags, the lot, and many people cant do that.

Is there something I can do in PHPmyAdmin or in the form to solve this?

[I-Jaf]

yeah, i got the same problem.

i'm just getting inot php and sql, making a forum, pretty easy, thats one of the only problems. i'm pretty sure that you cant solve the problem with the database, you've gt to find a way of automatically adding the html

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/107/0.php

see if that helps

[pieoncar]

nl2br, my good man.

[I-Jaf]

At 8/30/04 12:59 PM, pieoncar wrote: nl2br, my good man.

yay, that tutorial i linked to turned out to be useless, i'd just found it as i was posting