Forum style messaging

[DarrenPWS]

Hi again,

Another question:

I am also creating my own phpMySQL based forum - similar to this one but obviously simplified.

I want to know how I can get the output of a message to include line breaks.

At the moment, if I input a message in the textarea box, add it to the db etc. when I retrieve it, the text is on one continuous line.

I found using <pre> had some effect, but if the line of text was too long, it spilled out of my template.

SO... If you could tell me how I could add a

between each line when I insert the values to the database, that would be of great help.

Thanks.

Darren.

[Easywebdev]

Read up on php's nl2br() function.
It's not always as simple as placing a break tag in front of newline characters. Have a read up on the function and see the different scenarios that can arise.

[DarrenPWS]

Hi Easywebdev.

Thanks for the advice, i will be sure to look into the nl2br() function.

Thanks again.