How keep 3 lines of text in a form from becoming 1

[Anon]

Hello-

I have a form (like this one) which allows the posting of messages. The messages ORIGINALLY look like this:

1. Plug in.
2. Get Connected.
3. Step 3.

They are inserted into a blob variable in mysql but when I print the variable, it looks like this:

1. Plug in. 2. Get Connected. 3 Step 3.

Do I have to insert linefeeds or returns?

Please help.

Thanks,

Michael
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[Anon]

if the lines were entered in a TEXTAREA then they will have linefeeds but the web browser ignores them of course :⁾

php3 has a function called nl2br($stringvar)

which replaces every nl "\n" with "<BR>" so that they render correctly in a web browser.

you could use ereg_replace() if you want to do more complicated substitutions :⁾

[Anon]

If you're outputting that text to HTML, you need to enter a "<br>" after each. If it's in an email or some other cases, you need the linefeed character "\n".