you mean with the spaces and everything???
if so you will need to filter the string (text) before it is submitted to the database or after...
if you want return chars to show up then do this
after you conenct to the database and you get your query setup and you can spit out text try this...
$string = ereg_replace("\n", "<br>", $string );
to convert it back so you can use it in forms
$string = ereg_replace("<br>", "\n", $string );
is this what you want?