Maintaining Form Input

[Anon]

Hi,

This is probably a question that is asked quite often, I have looked on Yahoo and through your archives but just can't find a solution, anyway, I have a multiline text box on my page that users can obviously type content into, the content is then stored in a MySQL database, ready for retrieval to be displayed on another page later. The problem is that line breaks are ignored once being retrieved. Is this caused by the form input or the database, and is there a possible solution?

Thanks,

Stewart.

[Anon]

Hi,

if line-breaks are gone when writing it to a html-document, use the nl2br-command to replace \n to <br>.

if your php has the gpc-magic-quotes enabled, posted data should be automatically quoted. I.E. that also linebrakes will be written correctly to the db. Otherwise use the addslashes-Command.

Hope, that was helpful.
Sven.