Finding New Lines

[Dolbex]

Simple, simple, simple.

I am wanting to find returns inserted into a form by a user. By this I mean when I hit "enter" right here:

It will put my content on a new line when it is read out of the database.

Simple.. anyclue?

Thanks,
(how does it know I hit enter here?!)
Dolbex

[cgraz]

well, simply put. . .it just knows.

Just kidding. It's like when you push any other letter and that letter is put in. When you hit enter, a newline is added.

Lets say you type in

hello

this is
a newline

In your database, it will look like this

hello\n\n
this is\n
a newline\n

If you simply echo this out, it will display as

hello this is a newline

That's because \n doesn't create a break in html, it just creates a new line (which in html is only for code structure, not for actual breaks). What you want to do is convert the newlines to breaks. You can do this with the php function nl2br()

Cgraz

[jstarkey]

Originally posted by cgraz

If you simply echo this out, it will display as

hello this is a newline

Just an added note. If you're echoing it via php, you need to put the \n in double quotes for it to be considered a new line.