Inserted text loses"structure" -- why?

Anon

Hi there,

I want to take the content of a (form) text field and insert it into a MySQL database. No problem so far.

Unfortunately, the structure of the text, you know, line breaks and so on, are lost.

Any idea why? Or what I have to do keep this information?
I've tried all kinds of field types, that didn't do the trick

I'd hoped I could simply output the text preformatted, thus eliminating the need for HTML in that text.

Any help greatly appreciated!
Jan

Anon

View the source of the text, I doubt you're actually losing the formatting... try placing it in <PRE> tags </PRE> and it may look okay in a browser. Remember, you can have as many line breaks as you want in the source file, but they won't be rendered as line breaks in a browser unless you search/replace them with <BR> tags.

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Anon

Thanks for the help!

using <pre> - tags unfortunately doesn't work, I'll have to allow html, I guess.

The nl2br thing is great, thanks for the tip!

Jan