displaying database info correctly

[Anon]

I use phpMyAdmin to update my database, and rather than have my users type <br> at the end of every line i want to know if there is a way to get this automaticly done, or when it pastes the info on my viewable page to have break returns put at the end of lines

is this possible?

[crislewis]

If the data is entered into a TEXTAREA input field then the data will already have new lines in it if they used ENTER to get a new line.

To echo the data back into HTML with the line breaks in place use the function nl2br($text). This function sutomatically changes the new line character to a BR tag.

Cheers,

Cris

[Anon]

thx alot man, works a wonder now =]

been trying to get that to work for ages and it was sooo simple =]