Retrieving tabs and newlines from MySQL tables

[Anon]

I am outputing data from MySQL to an HTML page but tabs and newline characters aren't showing up. To make them show up, do I use substr() and a loop to go through the data and then store it in a string but stick in a tab or newline whenever I come across a \t or \n? Or is there a better way to do this?

[Anon]

Generally, whitespace is not significant in HTML. Read an HTML manual and find out what the PRE tag does.

[Anon]

The \n and \t are still there, but they do nothing in html. Use a string replace function or nl2br();

$string = nl2br($string); //turns \n into <BR>\n

The tabs are tricky because the only way to do that in html is with <blockquote>, but then you have to put it before and after the paragraph.

<pre> might be a better option...quick and easy...

---John Holmes...