So I have this webpage with a textarea box. The text is put into a MySQL db, where it is stored with any line breaks. In other words, if someone types this into the textarea box:

This is line one of the text submission.

This is line two of the text submission.

...this text is stored correctly in the db with a break between each sentence.


HOWEVER, when I take the data out of the db and do a php "echo $string;" of it, it comes out as a big blob with no breaks.

What can I do? Is there an easy way to display this with the breaks as they are in the db?

Thanks in advance,
WebGrrl

call nl2br() on the string so:

PHP Code:

echo nl2br($string); 


That function looks for newlines '\n' in the string and replaces it with '<br />' which inserts a line break into the HTML.

Purrrfect!

Thanks !

WebGrrl