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[Anon]

Hi,
I put the content of a textarea in a text field of a MySQL database.
When I want to display the content of this field from the database in another page, all carriage returns are forgotten.
Can someone help me ? Do I need to do something when the user submit the form ?
Thanks in advance.

[Anon]

It could be a couple of things:

• when displaying the results unless you put the output inside <PRE> tags newlines just appear as spaces... view the source to see if they really are lost.

• look at the WRAP attribute of the TEXTAREA tag...

-philip

[Anon]

And if the problem is caused by the first item, you can fix it
by running the data through <b>nl2br()</b> before displaying it;
this will turn any hard newlines in the text into &lt;br&gt; tags
to force a break. Note you don't have to store it in the database
that way (though you can if you want.) It's usually sufficient to
just do it on output.

[Anon]

Thanks a lot !
It's working now.