Rifts Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 hey I have a DB with id, name, link, text the text field is pretty much a long bio with a few paragraphs. i'm copy pasting the bios in and having to add <br><br> between each paragraph is there a data option that keeps the formating that is entered into the db? thanks Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/217463-this-is-possible/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 The formatting IS being retained when you save to the DB - line breaks and all. The problem is that the browser does not process linebreaks when rendering code - not without specific tags such as <PRE>. But, you don't want to use <PRE> for this anyway. Just save the input to the database as normal (don't add <BR> tags). Then on the page where you display the output use nl2br() to output the text. That function will automatically convert nel lines to <BR /> tags. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/217463-this-is-possible/#findComment-1129067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rifts Posted November 2, 2010 Author Share Posted November 2, 2010 awesome I will give this a try thanks Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/217463-this-is-possible/#findComment-1129594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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