[Resolved] New paragraphs are being ignored

Davidc316

Hi,

I'm working on a little script that allows users to fill in a form and write in a description (it's going to a band website so the description will be a band biog).

Anyway, the way it works is that when the user inputs their description (that may be several paragraphs long), a .txt file is created that cotains the description. And sure, enough, when you go to view the band profile, an include($the_description.txt) statement is made and the description is printed onto the screen.

The trouble is, PHP seems to be ignoring all new paragraphs and line breaks that are present in the textfile.

I was really hoping that PHP would print out the text file as it is, without having to force the user to enter "[p]" every time they want a new paragraph.

Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Thanks.

drawmack

You need to do 1 of two things. Tell them to enter html into the form or turn the .txt file into html using a rule based system

http://www.php.net/nl2br

Davidc316

Draw,
I read up about that function a couple of hours ago and I wasn't convinced that it would do the trick. It seems I was wrong and thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

Can I just ask whilst I have your attention...

...I've been including the text files by simply doing

include("description.txt");

As soon as I've included that I have no way of applying the function (cos it just prints the textfile onto the screen as soon as you ask it to include). I'm also not sure about how to apply a PHP function, such as nl2br(), to a text file.

Is there any chance you could give me some advice on how to do this?

Thanks

Davidc316

It's ok, I think I've got it working now.

Thanks for your help!