Displaying text with $echo

Anon

I'am new to coding and I have a problem that is bothering me. I'am having users enter a review of something and then displaying this from the database. The problem is, that when it is displayed with the command below, I only get one long pargraph of text. It does not recognize any returns, etc.

<% echo $comments; %>

Please help steer me with a code fix that I can drop in if possible.

John

Anon

You can change newline to <br> with the
nl2br() function.

$comments=nl2br($comments);
print $comments;

Have a look at the php documentation, string functions references.

htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() may also be usefull.

Anon

Unless your users are typing in HTML with <P> markers, of course all information will be in one paragraph. If you want it any other way, search for blank lines and replace them with <P>'s.

See http://yelvington.com/annotate.php3 for an example.

Anon

I want to sincerely thank everyone for your replies. This fix worked for me and it was very easy. Thank you for helping me take these baby steps into programming applications for my website.

I hope I can be of help once I learn this for myself.

Sincerely,
John

melmoth wrote:

You can change newline to with the
nl2br() function.

$comments=nl2br($comments);
print $comments;

Have a look at the php documentation, string functions references.

htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() may also be usefull.