[Resolved] Acknowledging Key Returns in Text Areas

KuroSatsu

I'm not entirely sure if this has to do with a database, but since the information is being submitted to my database, I'd assume so.

Anyway here's the situation:
I've made a page that allows me to post news to my database. However I still have to use html tags to make line breaks or paragraph breaks. Now I've seen on blogs and forums...like this, that all you have to do is press enter to get the desired effect. Does anyone know a tutorial or have any idea on how I can make my text area do the same thing?

If any more info is needed, I'm prolly gonna be online all day.

-Dave

laserlight

Look at [man]nl2br/man

Next time search the forums first.

KuroSatsu

I'd like to thank you for your help, but I'm not new to forums. I went through all 15 pages of this topic to try and find a dilema similar to mine.

Anyway, the code seems like something I'm looking for, but I've spent the past 2 hours trying to modify it or find out how the heck it works. I tried a few of the user examples too (as always) to see if any might produce the desired result. So far I've been unsuccessful. It'd seem that there's some controversy over how it's to be implemented though. Some people like to put it on their form, and some like to put it on the display page? I'm not sure which to do really.

I assume that any line breaks I put into the form are recorded as /n in my database. Therefore I've been trying to put the code into the display page so that when it reads my databse, it oughta convert those /n's to br's.

Anyway, thanks for putting me in a direction. I'm going to try and research the nl2br code some more.

-Dave

KuroSatsu

Alright I'm solved. Thank you for revealing the nl2br function to me. I did try searching for how to do this using google and yahoo. But...what can ya type? I didn't get back many returns.

Here's my solution to the problem though incase anyone else needs this:

the news article I want displayed is named article the table I'm using is names news.

$query = mysql_query("select * from news order by month desc, date desc, time desc limit 5");

while($result = mysql_fetch_array($query)){

$replace2br = nl2br($result['article']);

echo $replace2br;
}

this will now echo the row article from my database and replace all line breaks with a br tag. And according to the php dictionary this is XHTML compliant.

Once again thanks for leading me in the right direction.

-Dave