Posted by Jan Declercq on 10/18/05 13:50

Erwin Moller wrote:

> Bjorn Skauge wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just started to learn php and sql, and I noticed that there are
>> several php discussion groups here. Pardon me if this is the wrong
>> group, and I hope my first question isn't too silly. :-)
>>
>> I'm building a website that will publish articles, so I have an
>> article table which contains a heading field, an ingress field, and a
>> body field which will hold the complete article. There are line shifts
>> (or page breaks) in this field, but my display-page won't show them.
>> How do I show the article with the page breaks?
>
> Hi
>
> Add to the 'page breaks' a <br>
>
> so if you use \n as pagebreak, replace them
> echo str_replace("\n","\n<br>",$yourContent);
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller

A better way would be: nl2br()
http://www.php.net/nl2br

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