textarea wrap

[Anon]

i'm quite a newbie in php and now i have a problem: I'm making a php guestbook with mysql. I'm a comments field (a textarea) in my guestbook, but when I load the text from the database everything is on the same line. All the line-changes have gone. Why is it like that and what do I have to do to fix it?

[Anon]

turn the /n into <br>

nl2br() function will do it.

[cordex]

You could be having one of a few problems. Try this first.

When outputting the variable that contains the data from the table, do something like this:
(assuming $tabledat is the variable)

echo nl2br($tabledat);

This takes the newlines (which the textarea displays but HTML does not) and converts them to line break tags which HTML understands.