When I submit a form to the sql database it leaves out paragraph breaks in the form.

Is there a way to maintain the formating of the form submited so that it does not just string all the words together where there are line and paragraph breaks?

Cheers

There sure is. For breaks put a simple \n at the end of each paragraph.

Adding a \n manually is donkey work! A better way of doing it would be use a PHP command when viewing the content from the database, or before updating or inserting. I personally prefer to do it when outputting the content. Anyway, the command is "nl2br".

This basically converts the linebreaks to <BR>'s, sorted!

Yeah, to elaborate on what Gary said, when you enter in the form, line breaks get translated to \n. Use the php function nl2br() to echo your string back, and it will automatically convert line breaks to the <br /> tag.

PHP Code:

echo nl2br($string); 


Cheers guys!

I am trying to get this to work with in html embedded in php. Here is what i resulted but does not work. Can some correct this for me please?

<? <p class=\"questions\">"print nl2br($q2_3);"</p> ?>

or

PHP Code:

<? echo(ereg_replace("\n","<br>",$string)); ?>

This html...

<p class=\"questions\"><? echo nl2br($q2_3); ?> </p>

is embedded in php delimeter. I need to make...

PHP Code:

echo nl2br($q2_3); 


work in this format exactly. I hope this is clear.

here is another example of what i need to correct

PHP Code:

echo '<a href=\"nl2br ($q1)\"></a>';