New line problem ?

[Pellefant]

Hello!

I have data in a database.

When I do like this:

<textarea class="box" name="reviewtext" cols="40" rows="20" ><?echo $row['reviewtext']?></textarea>

It works fine, and I get the "new lines"/enter.

But, when I do

echo $row['reviewtext'];

I get all text on the same line. 🙁

Any clues?

[matbennett]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but I have a hunch that what you are looking for is the nl2br command. This basically changes line breaks (which appear in text boxes) to html br tags (which show in the body.

Click below for more info
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

[rklapwijk]

It's the nl2br command like matbennett said.
There are returns in the "reviewtext" field. But html cannot output them, a textarea can, thats why.

<textarea class="box" name="reviewtext" cols="40" rows="20" ><?echo $row['reviewtext']?></textarea>

<?php
echo nl2br($row['reviewtext']);
?>

[Pellefant]

Hi!

Thanks for the link. I dont get it correct thou, all still in the same row 🙁

echo "<b>Reviewtext:</b>";
echo "</a><br>\n";
$string = eregi_replace('<br[[:space:]]*/?[[:space:]]*>', "\n", $row['reviewtext'] );
echo $string;
echo "</a><br>\n";

[cgraz]

look at your source code. When you echo it, you'll see the results properly written on new lines

string1 part a
string1 part b
string1 part c

but, as you know, html doesn't care about newlines, if you want a newline to appear on the browser, you have to use a break. That means, yo'ud have to convert all your newlines to breaks. PHP has a handy little function called nl2br()

echo nl2br($string);

Cgraz

[Pellefant]

aha! it was that easy. Works fine now.

Thanks. 🙂