retaining text formats

[jarow]

I have the following field "Proyecto" in my database table:

proyecto text NOT NULL,

I have entered the following data into the "proyecto" field of ONE record:

• Taxonomía, Sistemática, Faunística y Autoecología de Moluscos de agua dulce.

• Dirección y coordinación del Proyecto Fauna Ibérica

• Coordinación del Consejo Editorial de la serie Fauna Ibérica.

When I SELECT it to view it, the text is all run together. In other words it does not retain the line breaks between the three sentences.

How can I get it to retain the formatting and not run together.

this is the php line I am using after I run the query:

<?php echo $row_test['proyecto']; ?>

Can it be done?

thanks alot

[yelvington]

Not a PHP issue, but a simple HTML issue.

Line endings are not meaningful in HTML.

If you want to output text, send an appropriate header at the top of the page.
header('Content-type: text/plain');

If you want to output HTML but still see the line breaks, do either:

-- surround the output with a PRE tag
OR
-- convert line enders to BR tags (see nl2br() in the manual)

[jarow]

thanks, the nl2br worked perfectly