K. I can use a text area type field to allow a user to enter multiple lines.
I then insert this data into the db. But when I retrieve the data and echo it out, the new lines are no longer there but are instead treated as spaces...is there any way to preserve that formatting?
i believe nl2br will help...
<?php
$string = "the database return";
echo nl2br($string);
?>
that will help i believe
Is there some quick way to account for all the HTML formatting types or no? Although nl2br is enough for my purposes.
I think you'd have to create some function to remove all <br> and other such things that would effect the format of it. I use nl2br and it works great. bold and stuff are fine. Just don't use <br> basically.