Inseting data

[adam84]

I dont know if this would be a php,html or mysql question, so i tried here furst. I have a textarea where the user enters whatever. Once the user is done, he/she clicks the send button and through ajax the textarea value gets sent to the php file to be process.

 

The problem is:

 

Say the user enters this in the textarea

 

Hello World!

 

This is a test!

 

I insert that value into my db. But when I retrieve the value the carriage return is not there.

I looks like this: 

 

Hello World!This is a test!

 

What is the problem

 

 

 

 

[Oldiesmann]

Make sure you're either replacing the line breaks with <br /> (PHP's nl2br() function will do this), or that you're using double quotes around the value:

 

echo '\n'; - literally displays \n

echo "\n"; - outputs a linebreak