textarea problem

[martinb7]

Hi, i have a problem: on my site, when you type in a textarea, then click submit, it submits it to a db. this all works fine, but when i read it back out, it all appears on 1 line even if i did this with the enter key leaving lines in between:

first bit of text


next bit of text


then carried on this would be on the same line as the bit above. how do i get round this?

also, when they submit the form, it inserts it into a db - the field type is TEXT, should it be something else??


Thanx

Martin

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[sleipnir214]

The text may have the returns in it -- it's just that HTML ignores returns.

Take a look at the PHP function nl2br() (

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php)

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[hos2]

you must replace the returns with the br tag

like
$newtext = str_replace (chr(13), &quot;<br>&quot;, $originaltext);

 

[sleipnir214]

hos2:
Didn't I just say that?

You may want to look at the description of nl2br().

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[hos2]

sorry I didn't press the link