I am coding a guestbook and I want new lines and spaces to be shown when I show the posts?
when I post a thread now everything is shown on one line.
help!
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Use nl2br(). Basically it's prepending every newline character with <br />.
Tatu Ulmanen
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Needed or not that's what nl2br() returns ;) http://php.net/nl2br: "Returns string with '
' or '
' inserted before all newlines. " – VolkerK Dec 03 '09 at 22:05 -
nl2br() returns
for legacy user-agent compatibility: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1659208/why-br-and-not-br/1659222#1659222 – micahwittman Dec 03 '09 at 23:30 -
Actually, the space before "/" is/was needed for legacy support of some older browsers, but not nowadays. – Tatu Ulmanen Dec 04 '09 at 09:44
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Use this function:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php
nl2br() will convert new lines into <br/> tags, so you will get new lines.
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