Reading Data out

[agmorgan]

In my program I am collecting information, in this process I allow a person to write a number of paragraphs. my coding for this is

echo "<textarea name='Dnote' rows='15' cols='65'></textarea>";

I then up load no problem..

My problem is reading the data.

if I use

echo "$Dnote";

I get all the text but in a single line, i.e no paragraphing.

if I use

echo "<textarea name='Dnote' value='$Dnote' rows='8' cols='60'>$Dnote</textarea>";

I get the paragraphing but in a text box (with a scroll bar). you can also highlight and change the text although you can not permanently alter the DB.

I want the text to come out as written in paragraphs, but no scroll bar and no ability to alter the text..

Is this possible (I note this very system PHPbuilder allows for this..

thanks

Andy

[esukf]

echo nl2br($Dnote);

[agmorgan]

esukf wrote:

echo nl2br($Dnote);

where do you put this line, this is my current program..

while ($rowBdisc = mysql_fetch_array($resultBdisc))
{
extract($rowBdisc);

 echo " <tr>
<td>$DAname</td><td>$DAanswer</td>

</tr>";
}

[esukf]

Assuming $DAanswer is the value from the textarea

while ($rowBdisc = mysql_fetch_array($resultBdisc))
{
  extract($rowBdisc);
  echo '<tr><td>'.$DAname.'</td><td>'.nl2br($DAanswer).'</td></tr>';
}

You can read what the nl2br function does here http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php