Formatting database output.

[Cogen]

This is a very easy question, however I can't seem to find any functions that are working for me.

I am allowing a user on a site to input (in an admin area) a newsletter to their site (a database). The problem is that they don't have any HTML knowledge, therefore I want the text to look exactly the way they typed it when it is taken out of the db. For instance, when they type ..

hey

hey

hey

.. it displays ..

hey hey hey.

I was able to solve this by using the html <pre> tag when outputting on the site, however I don't like that method. Is there a way I can do it with PHP? htmlentities didn't work.

[tuf-web_co_uk]

use addslashes() to your message before entering it into the database and stripslashes() when taking it back out from the database
that should fix your problem

[Cogen]

thank you for the reply, however that doesn't work either. I'm still getting

hey hey hey

when I output it, instead of

hey

hey

hey