[SOLVED] Formatting issues

[FirePhoenix]

I am making a program to store and retrieve data from a mysql database.  When I input the data it works just fine I can format it and space it how ever I want to and if I view it later in a textbox or text area it works fine so I know its storing right.  Now I have a page that I just echo this out to and it just spits it all out with the right spaces but none of the line breaks or anything else.  I would apriciate it if someone could let me know what i am doing wrong.....  Thank you

[Yesideez]

Try this:

nl2br($text);

[FirePhoenix]

thank you but where do I put it

echo n12br ($text);  ???

[paul2463]

where you have

<?php
echo $text; // where $text is the string you are printing to the page
?>

 

you now have

 

<?php
echo nl2br($text);
?>

[FirePhoenix]

wow that worked nicely thank you very much