Hello, I still did not get the answer, Field----------Type-----------Value-----------Extra (other) ID------------INT-------------------------------auto_increment Check primary key subject---Varchar-------30 message---------Text TimeAdd-----Date The problem is that when you fill the form and click the submit button, what I am having in the database in the text field is a staright line, this also echo out as a straight line when view from the browser on the web page. Thanks, Gab --- On Wed, 4/21/10, sridhar sridharan <sridhar_vpy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: sridhar sridharan <sridhar_vpy@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Not getting the right output in phpmyadmin To: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 5:19 AM try this while insert the record into database <php? $insert=mysql_ query("INSERT INTO form (email,subjetc, message)VALUES( '$email', '$subject' ,addslashes( $message) "); ?> while retrieve the message form database it will show what format you have inputed stripslashes( $message) Sridhar --- On Tue, 20/4/10, Gab Teo <doneatlast1000@ yahoo.com> wrote: From: Gab Teo <doneatlast1000@ yahoo.com> Subject: Not getting the right output in phpmyadmin To: php-objects@ yahoogroups. com Date: Tuesday, 20 April, 2010, 11:28 PM Can someone help please? I use phpmyadmin and set the message field in the database with respect to id being that the id is in auto_increament: message (text)(latin1_ swedish_ci) but, when when text is inputed into the database via the form it appeared as a straight line in the database and again when view from the browser is also appeard starightline, this causes the whole page to expand, I expected the message input to break after it reach cols=40 and continue in a new line until it reach the rows=10 as defined in the html form. Can someone help please? Gab <form action="mail. php" method="POST" > <b>Email</b> <br> <input type="text" name="email" size=40> <p><b>Subject< /b><br> <input type="text" name="subject" size=40> <p><b>Message< /b><br> <textarea cols=40 rows=10 name="message" ></textarea> <p><input type="submit" value=" Send "> </form> <php? $insert=mysql_ query("INSERT INTO form (email,subjetc, message)VALUES( '$email', '$subject' ,'$message' "); ?> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]