Retrieving text in its orginal format

[Shadowing]

I notice that my text gets saved correctly formated in mysql but when I go to display it its not formated anymore. Anyone know what can I do to get it to display correctly?

[SergeiSS]

Try to show it:

// version 1
echo '<pre>'.$your_text.'</pre>';

// version 2
echo '<textarea>'.$your_text.'</textarea>';

 

BTW, do you enter your text via a form, inside textarea tag?

[jcbones]

I suppose that you are wanting to preserve new lines?  As HTML formatting should remain intact (unless you are using htmlentities).

 

If so, you need to look at nl2br.

[scootstah]

Vague questions get vague answers.

 

What is the formatting supposed to be and what is it showing?

[Shadowing]

thanks for the responces guys

 

im using <textarea>Message</textarea> on the way in. Im not using any tags when displaying it.

 

 <?php echo "<td colspan='160'><div class='ex'>$message</div></td></tr>"; ?>

 

i tried <pre> and that made it go out side my box outline.

 

It looks like this below where it shows no line breaks and i want there to be line breaks

 

The total width of an element should be calculated like this: Total element width = width + left padding + right padding + left border + right border + left margin + right margin The total height of an element should be calculated like this: Total element height = height + top padding + bottom padding + top border + bottom border + top margin + bottom margin but I want it to look like

 

 

 

 

 

[scootstah]

 <?php echo "<td colspan='160'><div class='ex'>" . nl2br($message) . "</div></td></tr>"; ?>

[Pikachu2000]

OP, colspan='160'? Are you sure you know what the colspan attribute does?

[Shadowing]

yah im coming back in a month with CSS just getting functions working. I know if i get rid of the col span it really messes something up.

 

I tried your suggustion out scoot. using " " gave me a snytax error so I used ' ' it just added 'n12br' to the message. I was doing some reading and for what I read it should be grabing it out of the data base exactly how it is in the data base.

 

the colspam doesnt seem to be effecting it

 

I took a picture of it below

 

 

[Pikachu2000]

It's nl2br, as in en ell (two) bee are, not en (twelve) bee are.

[Shadowing]

nice that might just work now. now my text editor is lighting up nl2br as red

 

my problem now is getting past the snytax error with the quotes.

I tried replacing the " with single qoutes on each side of the nl2br$message but that doesnt work. and i cant get rid of the double quotes on the out side cause of the variable existing. i never came accross a snytax issue like this one before.  I even tried breaking the echo up and only echoing in 

 

 echo "<td>" . nl2br$message . "</td>"; 

 

 

orginal code

below

 echo "<td colspan='160'><div class='ex'>" . nl2br$message . "</div></td></tr>"; 

[Pikachu2000]

Perhaps you should read the examples in the manual: nl2br

[Shadowing]

thanks Pikachu

 

I got it working

 

 echo nl2br("<td colspan='160'><div class='ex'>$message</div></td></tr>");