You need to use nl2br http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php Marco ------------- php|architect -- The Monthly Magazine For PHP Professionals Come visit us on the web at http://www.phparch.com! On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:30, Siamak Sadeghianfar wrote: > Hi > I've written a guestbook in php > user writes a message in a texarea and in the code I insert it in a table > and then in showpage I sow it to him.before I insert the message into table > , I use addslashes() and htmlspecialchars(). the prblem is that , when I > retrieve the message from the table all sentences are after each other , and > there's no break!!!! that makes a bad appearance. > I mean for example someone write in the texarea as following : > -- > Hi > how r u? > what happened there?! > -- > > when I show the message to him the appearance is this way : > -- > Hi how r u? what happened there?! > -- > > what should I do to show him exactly how he wrote the message? > > thanx > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
