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[mattlatos]

I have a form which posts to a MySQL database.

I want to basically send a page of news to the database already formatted with enters.

Normally I just have to go through and put <BR> on the end of every line to format it correctly. But I noticed that MySQL is storing them the correct way (looking at them in PhpMyAdmin) and I'm sure they are just using PHP to display it back to me, so what is the code to display it back correctly??

[daarius]

just store the data as it is. i.e. with new lines \n etc.

but when you get the data back out to display on a browser, then use print nl2br($myText);

nl2br(); converts new lines to <br>'s

[mattlatos]

Perfect Thankyou. I knew there was a function but I just couldn't remember it, and I couldn't find it on PHP.NET because I couldn't describe it well enough in my head!

My end code was: $code= nl2br(htmlspecialchars($row['code']));

Which works a treat

Thanks