Ascii text to HTML - Help please

[loquela]

I'm trying to pull text from a database and disply it in HTML.

 

The text in the database contains no html tags so when it is displayed as HTML it is displayed as a continuous string:

 

Database source text:

 

This is the firstparagraph of the text.

This is the second paragraph.

Etc....

 

Text as dislayed in HTML:

 

This is the first paragraph of the text. This is the second paragraph. Etc....

 

What I really want to do is create praragraph blocks in the HTML:

 

This is the firstparagraph of the text.

This is the second paragraph.

Etc....

 

To

 

<p>This is the firstparagraph of the text.</p>

<p>This is the second paragraph.</p>

<p>Etc....</p>

 

Or at the very least replace the ascii line breaks with

<br />

.

 

How is this achieved?

 

 

[Barand]

echo nl2br($dbtext);

[loquela]

That was painless  . Sorted. Many thanks

[loquela]

Many thanks so far.

Could we now go a step further?

 

Instead of having a long string of text with just

<br>

How would it be possible to format the ascii text more semantically:

 

ASCII:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. 

Aenean est. Maecenas varius scelerisque ligula. Morbi est nibh, bibendum pulvinar, interdum ac, fringilla non, lacus. 

In hac habitasse platea dictumst.

 

to HTML:

 

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</p>

<p>Aenean est. Maecenas varius scelerisque ligula. Morbi est nibh, bibendum pulvinar, interdum ac, fringilla non, lacus.</p>

<p>In hac habitasse platea dictumst.</p>

 

Many thanks in advance.

[Barand]

replace your linefeeds with "</p><p>" and place the whole text inside <p> ... text ... </p>

[loquela]

Many thanks Barand, very helpful