RE: [PHP] formatting textarea input on output

2003-03-25 Thread daniel
umm nl2br doesnt work most the time , "nl2br -- Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string " sorry to give a wrong example this is for splitting your content into paragraphs obviously where there is a break in the content like so efwojeiowerjwetwpjwewoj eioptejoiejiojtei it won

Re: [PHP] formatting textarea input on output

2003-03-25 Thread CPT John W. Holmes
> /** > * converts line break and spaces to page break > * > * @access public > */ > > function nlbr($string) { > return preg_replace("/(\r\n|\n|\r)/", "\n", $string); > } ummm www.php.net/nl2br() ?? Start a new thread for your question, don't hijack someone else's thread. ---John H

Re: [PHP] formatting textarea input on output

2003-03-25 Thread 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 databa

RE: [PHP] formatting textarea input on output

2003-03-25 Thread daniel
/** * converts line break and spaces to page break * * @access public */ function nlbr($string) { return preg_replace("/(\r\n|\n|\r)/", "\n", $string); } here is one i use , what i'm still trying to work out , its a way

Re: [PHP] formatting textarea input on output

2003-03-25 Thread CPT John W. Holmes
> 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.

Re: [PHP] formatting textarea input on output

2003-03-25 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 23:30 25.03.2003, Charles Kline said: [snip] >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? -