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LorKorub:
I wrote my own guestbook script for a friend's web site I am doing, but I cannot seem to format the text from a textbox to get it to output properly on the "view guestbook" screen.  It writes on only one line, and pressing Return, Tab, etc. have no effect.

I tried adjusting the column width on the output table, but no effect either...

Any suggestions?

flap:
You'll need to replace the newline characters in the text with <br>

Master of Reality:
cant you replace it with the php with a /n ?
(i dont know... i am asking)

voidmain:
After pulling my guestbook comments from the database here is what I do to insert a <BR> wherever there is a return:


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LorKorub:
Thanks guys...

void:  Your function worked, but since PHP 4.0+ they have come up with something much easier to use. It is called the nl2br function. Easy:

<?
    $text=mysql_result($blah,$i,"blah");
    $new_text=nl2br($text);

?>

Then just call $new_text where you want to use it, or pass whatever variable you want to nl2br and call it directly.

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