line breaks

Anon

I'm a beginner with php. I've done a page for a friend like a guestbook with a form that goes to a mysql database and then a page that displays the input from the user.
One of my fields in the form is a textarea where people write essays and I cannot get the line breaks to appear back in the page.
I need a simple solution please.

Thanks

Anon

Try this simple replace statement.
Hope it's what you're lookign for.

$text = ereg_replace("\n", " ", $text);

Kevin

Anon

when displaying the message use the newline to br function, nl2br(), in php:

$messageWithBr=nl2br($message); //This converts all line breaks to

echo $messageWithBr;

--Hope this helps

Anon

Thanx Paul,
I used the nl2br command as you suggested, but I had some problems figuring out where to put it in the code. The easy option was to put it before the mysql insert into. But then the information on the database would be full of .
In the end I got it, and learned a lot. I put it in the mysql fetch array loop and it worked beautifully. Now the data in the database is as typed and the output in html has got the necessary tags.

Arturo

Anon

Similar issue, but going the 'other' way.
I've got tags in my table data, but now I need to remove them so the code will echo as one line (for use in a javascript).

I've tried ereg_replace(" ","", $field);
but that just strips out html, it doesnt pull out the \n

when I try to ereg_replace on \n, I get all sorts of errors...oh wait, it's a parse error. Perhaps this will work:

ereg_replace("\n", "", $field);

If I remember correctly, that will cancel the special function of the second .

Let's hope that works. Any replies would be helpful.