text formating

[agmorgan]

In a form I gather information in a text box

<textarea name="textarea" cols="75" rows="10"></textarea>

On entering this information goes into a DB (BLO😎

However when I read the text in a review page the text comes out in s continuous line rather than how it was entered i.e. in paragraphs.

echo "$textarea";

If I display the output from the DB in a text box I get the formating but the text needs to be scrolled if the text box isn't long enough. This isn't good for printing.

therefore my question is what do I need to add to my script to get the formating without a textbox.

cheers

[NogDog]

You can use the [man]nl2br[/man] function to output it with <br> tags at each newline, or instead just output it as is within <pre>...</pre> tags.