Subject: Where did my Hard Returns go?

At 14:00 01/03/2006, you wrote:
>Message-ID: <001701c63d38$71e84c30$6501a8c0@shuttlebox>
>From: "Jeff Broomall"
>To:
>Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:00:03 -0500
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>Subject: Where did my Hard Returns go?
>
>I created an edit_task page that allows the user to edit tasks for the
>database. I entered some text and used some hard returns.
>
>But when I went to view the tasks (using a PHP script if it matters),
>the hard returns didn't "take." None of em. All of the text is
>jumbled together.
>
>I checked within the MySQL database and noticed the Hard Returns
>show in the database (at
>least while using phpMyAdmin).
>
>Must have something to do with PHP? Where did I go wrong???

No, it must not have something to do with PHP. View the source of
your web page. You'll see those hard returns are recovered verbatim
from the database. Web browsers *only* respect returns (newlines) in
elements formatted as

 or when using a fixed pitch font in CSS.



You need to nl2br($result_string) if you want to get HTML 
 

characters in the stream - browsers use 
 not newlines to 

display line breaks. I thought everybody knew that ;-))



Cheers - Neil 



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