[mdhall]

I'm putting together a php/mysql cookbook/recipe program. All works well except for one bug.
When enterting info from a form to add a recipe, for example the ingredients section, you naturally hit the carriage return after you add each ingredient, so that you go to the next line. This saves in mysql the same way. However, when I go to display the recipe, the ingredients do not have the line breaks in them. The output is failing to break the lines where it should. I have tried variations of

nl2br
$replText = ereg_replace("13","<br>",$ingredients);
$replText=str_replace("\n","<br>",$ingredients);

Nothing is working. I'm not sure if its where I'm placing these functions, or if its something in my php setup. I'm also wondering if I need to add something in the form itself. And is the stripslashes/addslashes command something to consider in doing this? Thnx

[fyrestrtr]

Check the stuff you are passing to the functions. If your text contains \\n -- then nl2br() won't work for you.

[mdhall]

The only thing being added is plain text.

[Stephen]

Run what you're typing into the form via cat -A, it will probably produce surprising results.

[mdhall]

Not sure what you mean by "via cat -A"

[NeverMind]

when you want to display the field from mysql use something like this :

PHP Code:

echo stripslashes(nl2br($text)); 

of course if you didn't use addslashes() you don't need to strip them ..
but the important thing is when you want to 'print' the output use nl2br() ..

[mdhall]

Thnx. I finally figured out where to actually put the nl2br function to get it to work, and blend it with the rest of my output. Works like a charm.