Re: [PHP] formatting textarea input on output

[Charles Kline]

I hang my head in shame... yes. As a matter of fact, I did on my second 
skim through my PHP ref. manual... thanks for the pointer just the same.

- charles

On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 05:38 PM, CPT John W. Holmes wrote:

i have a textarea in a form which gets inserted into a table in my
database (mySQL). When displaying this text back to the screen, how do
i retain the line breaks etc. that were in the original input?
I bet if you searched for "textarea" and "line breaks" you'd of found 
the
nl2br() function... but I'm not a betting man... unless there's money
involved... and beer.

---John Holmes...

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