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[Ken Robinson]

At 12:47 PM 10/19/2006, Ben Sgro (sk) wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I have a textarea field that can .. store text.
>
>I'm using it to save emails for example w/a form.
>I grab the posted data and call addslashes( ) then stick it into the
>database, varchar(1024). (this is a calendar app for my own use).
>
>Now, when I pull it out, its not formatted and displaying it on the screen
>is just one long line.
>
>How can I keep newlines/r and formatting from the text that is input into
>the textarea box?

Use the nl2br() function when displaying the data.

Ken 
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