Losing layout when writing to database?

[Anon]

Heyz,

I had the following problem:

I have a form in a file called form.php. Users can enter their name in the form, a title and some text ( kinda like a questbook ). On submit I save the info in a MySQL database, but when I get it back out I lose the layout of the text. Like linefeeds and such are ignored or something.

Does anyone know a way how to avoid this and just save the text as it is in the database and getting it out the same way?

Thnx,

Robin

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If you looked at your sourcecode you'd see that there are linebreaks in the text. Linebreaks are ignored by HTML (whoever did that should be stamped on the toes)

use nl2br() to convert the linebreaks to BR tags.