php blob manipulation

[blackmercury]

I am using a blob type in my recipe dbase. when the user enters the steps for a recipe in the textarea of the page, it should look like this

1 ingredients
2 mix
3 bake

but, once i output the recipe on another page it comes out like this,

1 ingredients 2mix 3 bake

how can i manipulate a blob to list what i type instead of having it all on one line? the blob array is
$food[blob];

thanks

[BeastRider]

You need to substitute a <br> for the \n or \n\r carriage returns in your blob field.

[mknudsen]

You can use nl2br() on the string before displaying it on the page.

eg:

$food['blob'] = nl2br($food['blob']);