bigrossco Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 is their anyway i can have brakes added in to the type "text" so when results in that field are shown in php with brakes?Ross Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/32705-adding-brakes-in-text-type/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsidian Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 The best way I know of (depending on how your text is getting populated), assuming you're using a textarea, is just to leave the line breaks the user inputs as-is. Then, when you output the record to the screen, run the nl2br() function on the string, and it will convert all the line breaks to <br /> tags to display properly. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/32705-adding-brakes-in-text-type/#findComment-152205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigrossco Posted January 3, 2007 Author Share Posted January 3, 2007 how would i run the nl2br() Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/32705-adding-brakes-in-text-type/#findComment-152214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsidian Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Hopefully this will make more sense:[code]<?php// Let's say I'm pulling comments out of my database:$sql = mysql_query("SELECT name, email, comment FROM comments");while ($x = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) { $from = "<a href=\"mailto:{$x['email']}\">{$x['name']}</a>"; $note = nl2br($x['comment']); // This will interpret all my line breaks for me // Now, you can display it however you like.}?>[/code] Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/32705-adding-brakes-in-text-type/#findComment-152265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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