Line return in text area with html/php/mysql?

Question

I have a textarea control in my php/mysql based web site and it allow the user to enter text
in
different
lines
as this
example
then I write info in mysql database, but when I read and show information in a TD on another page, the line return are lost and all the text is on a single line.

Can you help me with this ?
Do you need more detail to help me?

Thanks a lot !

Answer 1

Run it through nl2br() to convert the new lines into HTML line breaks.

Answer 2

yup, these guys are correct.



if you try to dump the data back into the textarea at a later time it'll display the
as text tho, use this to get around:



echo str_replace("<br />", "", $text); ?>

Answer 3

use nl2br();



like this -



$formated_text = nl2br($_POST['text']);