echo out with line breaks and paragraphs set

[spaceman12]

hello guys, suppose I want to echo out the text given below exactly as what has been set against, including the line breaks. How do I do it? coz each time i did it so, there s no line breaks but the output is usually a dense lump of words with no paragraphs.

I took her out it was a Friday night
I wore cologne to get the feeling right
We started making out and she took off my pants
But then I turned on the TV

And that's about the time she walked away from me
Nobody likes you when you're 23
I'm still more amused by TV shows
What the hell is ADD?
My friends say I should act my age
What's my age again?
What's my age again?

 

please help

 

 

P.S.

The whole set of phrase give above are treated as a single variable coz I use a WHILE loops when making an echo.

tthanks

[.josh]

would be better if you showed the code actually outputting the text, but you probably need to be using nl2br or simply wrapping your text with <pre>...</pre> tag.

[the182guy]

Web browsers do not recognise new lines as other programs do such as notepad/text editors. Web browsers will only show a new line if there is a <br /> tag or a CSS setting or the text is wrapped individually in <p> tags.

[spaceman12]

$selectSUP="SELECT * FROM member_support WHERE Ticket_ID='$_GET[TID]'";
$locateSUP=mysql_query($selectSUP);
while($fetchSUP=mysql_fetch_array($locateSUP))
{
$status=$fetchSUP['Status'];
    $date=$fetchSUP['Date'];
    $subject=$fetchSUP['Subject'];
    $type=$fetchSUP['Type'];
    $message=$fetchSUP['Message'];
}
echo "Ticket ID"." ".":"." ".$_GET['TID']."</br>";
echo "Status"." ".":"." ".$status."</br>";
echo "Opened On"." ".":"." ".$date."</br>";
echo "Type"." ".":"." ".$type."</br>";
echo "<br></br><br></br>";
echo $message;

 

 

 

$message = "I took her out it was a Friday night

I wore cologne to get the feeling right

We started making out and she took off my pants

But then I turned on the TV

 

And that's about the time she walked away from me

Nobody likes you when you're 23

I'm still more amused by TV shows

What the hell is ADD?

My friends say I should act my age

What's my age again?

What's my age again?"

[.josh]

only thing i really see wrong here is that it should be <br> or <br/> by itself, one for each line break you want, not </br> (linebreak tag does not have open and closing tags, it is a single tag).

[spaceman12]

wont "\r\n" used in the php mail fucntion help here?

[Pikachu2000]

echo nl2br($message);

[spaceman12]

echo nl2br($message);

Thank you so much...............it so worked out like a charms......