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[manicleek]

Is there any way I can make PHP/MySQL recognise the fact that there are paragraphs in a text field without having the user put in <p></p> or <br> tags in to format it?

 

[y2k1981]

I'm pretty new to PHP too, but I was just browing the forum and found this thread:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=988448&page=1

it looks like you could use nl2br which would then convert the new lines in the field from MySQL to line breaks in HTML. Worth a try, hope it works for you

 

[manicleek]

I don't think that really helps me as the user would still have to type /n

Really I want something like the text boxes on here where I can press return and the page will recognise the fact that I've done it without me having to type <br> or /n

 

[Vragabond]

Not really. \n is actually a carriage return, meaning that when user pushes enter, they insert \n and using the nl2br function will transfrom that into <br />. Now, it won't know when to put <p></p> but it will put <br /> in every occurence of enter making the text entered in say textarea look the same in html. Another option to preserve similar formatting to textarea is embedding text in <pre></pre> tags.

 

[manicleek]

aaah, your right, I'm wrong, thanks a lot