great, works like a dream! many thanks Dan -----Original Message----- From: 1LT John W. Holmes [mailto:holmes072000@charter.net] Sent: 19 November 2002 17:12 To: Griffiths, Daniel; php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: formatted text, php and mysql Have you looked at the nl2br() function? echo "<tr><td>" . nl2br($content) . "</td></tr>"; That may give you the output you're looking for. ---John Holmes... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Griffiths, Daniel" <DANIEL.GRIFFITHS@conconf.org> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 11:50 AM Subject: formatted text, php and mysql Hi, hopefully someone can help me out with this.. I need to be able to copy text from a document, keeping carriage returns and white space chars, into a database and output the same to a web page. I have a field in a mysql table of type 'longtext' into which i can load text and keep the white space and carriage return characters intact. I can output this field to a page using php in a similarly formatted way by using the <pre> tag in an echo statemnet : - echo "<tr><pre>$content</pre></tr>"; however, by using the <pre> tag all individual lines of text are printed on a single line and the sizing of my table is ignored, i.e. the text won't wrap. <pre width=20> for example doesn't work. Is there a 'proper' way of doing something like this with php without relying on printing out html tags with the string? cheers Dan -- 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
