How can you display messages in PHP spanning many lines

[simon1221]

Basically the equivalent of this forum, the messages is stored in the MySQL database correctly, with new lines and all.

I was using the 'echo' function but that doesnt work properly.

The best I have at the moment is storing it in read-only text boxes, which is rather crude:

<textarea name="textarea" cols="65" rows="10" readonly="readonly" wrap="off"><?=$msg;?>
</textarea>

Is there a better way of doing this?

Many thanks
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[Suzuki]

The text is stored with the new lines marked with the return character "\n".

If you want this to display correctly on a webpage, you need to replace all the return characters with "<br>".


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[Dom]

$textfromdatabase = nl2br($textfromdatabase);

Bob's your thingamywhatsit.
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