Retaining Text Format upon retrevial from DB

[dexthageek]

I am working on creating a template for users to type content into a form then save it to a database. When the data is extracted from the DB and displayed on the page, all whitespace is ignored. I tried using <pre> tag which works but then you have the problem where there is no textwrapping so it throws my tables out of wack.

Can anyone tell me how to display content from a DB on a webpage and maintain the linebreaks.

Thanks in advance
Mike

 

[Vragabond]

If you just need to preserve linebreaks, your solution is definitely nl2br() function. It will convert all your regular newline characters to <br />s, which is how html marks line breaks. Just wrap this function around the variable you need to preserve line breaks in.