Adding Linebreaks to text pulled from SQL

Question

When I get data from a MySQL database and echo it using PHP viewing the HTML source show it like this

<div class="Desc">testing lines
new line
another                     </div>

How do I get it to add on the end of the lines so it shows correctly in the browser

I want to end up with something like this

<div class="Desc">testing lines<br/>
new line<br/>
another line<br/>                       </div>

I have tried <?PHP echo nl2br($text) ?> but that doesn't work

Could you give some more code? Every \n\r should convert to a
with nl2br(). — Cas Wolters, Jul 27 '15 at 14:55
This is a duplicate question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5946114/how-to-replace-r-n-with-br — Grant, Jul 27 '15 at 14:57

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 27 '15 at 15:14

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yes you are correct - it does work, i was viewing the source or the wrong page after adding the nl2br code

my mistake

thanks anyway

answered Jul 27 '15 at 15:14

chris barrow

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