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Frank Smith
Frank Smith

Reputation: 119

Format Dynamic Text Using PHP

I have text fields which are populated from a database, the text when entered by the user is punctuated correctly with full stops and carriage returns etc.

Using VB with an ordinary db request:

<%=(rsMyrecordset.Fields.Item("text").Value)%>

I would get this result:

Mary had a little Lamb. Its fleece was as white as snow.

even if the user entered a return after the full stop after the word Lamb.

Using this code:

<%= Replace(rsMyRecordset.Fields.Item("text").Value, VbCrLf, "<br>") %>

The text returned would be:

Mary had a little Lamb.
Its fleece was as white as snow.

How would I achieve the same result using PHP? Currently I have:

<?php echo $row_rsMyRecordset['text']; ?>

Many thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 30

Answers (1)

user3824994
user3824994

Reputation:

maybe you are looking for nl2br: http://php.net/manual/function.nl2br.php

<?php echo nl2br($row_rsMyRecordset['text']); ?>

Upvotes: 3

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