Richard Kurth wrote: > I need to save an email in a mysql database so that it retains it's > original layout > so the example below > > Hello , > > Do you dream of a better life? Do you wish you had financial stability > and freedom? Would you like to be your own boss? > > would look like this when the file is saved > > \r\n Hello ,\r\n\r\n\r\n Do you dream of a better life? Do you wish you > had financial stability and freedom? Would you like to be your own boss? > > how do I insert all the line spaces like above If you insert a string with EOL characters into mysql, the EOL characters are added as you might expect. However, I suspect your question might really be: How do I display this email in a web page with the original format? And two potential answers are via php's nl2br() or HTML's <PRE> tags. Ooh look, clever sigmonster :-) Cheers -- David Robley It's as easy as 3.14159265358979323846264338327950... Today is Boomtime, the 52nd day of Chaos in the YOLD 3173. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
