RE: text formatting

I haven't seen the rest of the thread, but form data looses all formatting.
Line breaks will remain but HTML ignores them

look at nl2br() to convert them to <br>

HTH

Peter



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blue Presley [mailto:blue928@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 30 June 2002 23:31
> To: mysql@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: text formatting
>
>
> I'm using (and new to) PHP.  any suggestions as to what functions, if any
> exist, that would be appropriate for pre-formatting?
>
> thx,
> blue
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gurhan Ozen" <ergenekon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Blue Presley" <blue928@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <mysql@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 6:02 PM
> Subject: Re: text formatting
>
>
> > This should be handled before the data is even inserted into mysql. Have
> > your scripting language that you use in the form handle this to have the
> > resume formatted in the way you'd like and then have it insert the data
> into
> > mysql.
> > Gurhan
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Blue Presley" <blue928@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <mysql@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 5:34 PM
> > Subject: text formatting
> >
> >
> > > hello,
> > > I have a web from that allows a user to submit a resume in
> text format.
> > How
> > > do i make mysql respect the formatting of the text document so that it
> is
> > > pulled from the database as it was inserted?  right now
> everything comes
> > > back as one paragraph.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > blue
> > >
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