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Old August 19th, 2003, 07:29 PM
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Problem getting info from a DB to show correctly

I have a MySQL DB column labled news. It is a text type. My website shows this information on the main page. I have a CMS which uses a text area box to get the data for the DB. ILets say I type in

Quote:
Hello
You have entered my website"


It will display on the page

Quote:
"HelloYou have entered my website"

In the edit section of the CMS the text area box will show it correctly but not on the page

If I insert a BR tag after the word hello it will show correctly

Quote:
Hello<br>
You have entered my website

or
Quote:
Hello<br>You have entered my website


will display correctly.

How do I get it to acknowldege news lines from the text area box without me having ot put in <br> tags.

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When you display the field value as HTML (not in the textarea, but in the display page), run it through the following function:

PHP Code:
 $news=preg_replace("/\n/","<br>",$news); 


It looks for newline characters and converts them to the line break tag.

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also you could use
PHP Code:
 $news=nl2br($news); 

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also you could use
PHP Code:
 $news=nl2br($news); 
This would be the standard way to do it... and I would suggest it is done this way.
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