Preserving Whitespace....

[geudrik]

When entering data througha text box to be stored in a mySql database, how do you preserve the white space when it gets displayed back onto a page?  

 

Eg: if i post a multi-paragraphed page, how do I keep the paragraphs seperated? ???

[lemmin]

You could use regex to switch the line breaks to <br> tags:

preg_replace("[\n]", "<br>", $content);

[DarkWater]

Use the nl2br() function when outputting it.

[discomatt]

You could also use a formatted version of the <pre></pre> tags.

 

In order to preserve all whitespace outside of using pre you'll have to convert spaces to ' ' and tabs '\t' to several ' 's as well as use the nl2br function.