How do I do this? :)

http://www.static-pulse.co.uk/etcetcetc.gif

When the text comes out on the PHP page it doesn't have line breaks, how do I code the add_news page to see new lines as line breaks?

thx in advance :)

You want to look into the nl2br function which was mentioned on this thread (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=70618).

As an example on usage, say your text with the line breaks is stored in $txtMessage.

Instead of something like:

echo $txtMessage;
you'll do:
echo nl2br($txtMessage);

I hope that helps.

--Shaun

Hi

Use the HTML <br> command:

etc <br>
etc <br>
etc <br>

Or if you want the data you are writing in paragraphs you can enclose it in a paragraph as follows.

<p> etc </p>
<p> etc </p>

I hope this helps.

Andy

Yes, you could also do what Andy mentioned.

It depends how you want to go about it.

If you want to have the person entering the news add the <br /> (or <br> tags) manually then use Andy's method. If you want the <br /> tags to be added behind the scenes, then use the method I explained.

This assumes that you wrote the script being used and know how to modify it. If you didn't, let me know the script name and I may be able to get it and provide a few pointers.

Regards,
Shaun

spot on shaunewing! :)

I just replaced:
<?php echo stripslashes($row[3]); ?>
with
<?php echo stripslashes(nl2br($row[3])); ?>

and it worked great :)
Thanks very much!

Originally posted by MMD
spot on shaunewing! :)

I just replaced:
<?php echo stripslashes($row[3]); ?>
with
<?php echo stripslashes(nl2br($row[3])); ?>

and it worked great :)
Thanks very much!

Glad to be a help! :)

--Shaun