Echoing multiline user input

[dink87522]

I have a form a user may submit which has a text area.

 

If the user enters "Today

is

the

first

day

of

 

the

 

week"

 

it will be stored in the database like that (note the carriage returns etc).

 

If I then get that data from the table and echo it, it will print as 'Today is the first day of the week'.

 

How can I print it so that it will retain the user's input formatting/the formatting shown stored in the table?

[ManiacDan]

The PHP function nl2br or the HTML tag <pre>

 

-Dan

[PFMaBiSmAd]

[ot]@dan, the forum has a custom bbcode tag - [m][/m] that you can put around the name of php functions and it creates a link to the corresponding php.net/{functionname} page, i.e. [m]nl2br[/m] would give nl2br[/ot]