Posted by Michael Fesser on 12/21/07 21:06

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>Hi, I'm having trouble using the proper terminology, so bear with me,
>I am trying to submit text to a mysql database. I want to be able to
>allow formatting of this content (like breaking it up into
>paragraphs). I am sending the data to the server via ajax, and so
>escape the characters.
>
>When I read back the information on my news page, all of the
>formatting is gone. Do I need to unescape the charachters somehow
>using javascript or php?

If the text was entered in a text area for example, then of course it
only contains normal line breaks. If you want to print it out as HTML,
then you either have to call nl2br() (be aware that it returns XHTML)
or - better - replace the line breaks with proper 'p' elements.

Micha

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