Restoring Carriage Returns from Mysql PHP onto HTML

[dreamaz]

Hi,

I have a small database with one field that has over 500 characters. WHen I restore the data, it comes all in one paragraph, the line breaks are not there that I originally stored the data as.

in asp I have something like:
Response.Write Replace( myString, vbCRLF, "<br>" )
that fixed that problem for me. But need to know how to do it in php

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

/JC

 

[lgarner]

Probably here:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php

 

[ORettinger]

If your Newline characters are stored in the database (as they normally are)
try the command

echo nl2br($textstring);

PHP replaces everly \nl with an <br>-Tag

That should do it

 

[dreamaz]

COuldn't find anything that could help me so far

 

[dreamaz]

ORettinger thanks alot it worked!

/JC