Question

I am doing a simple query to retrieve car manufacturers from my db:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT model_make_display_name FROM car_query_models_full ORDER By model_make_display_name ASC") or die(mysql_error());

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo "<p>".$row['model_make_display_name']."</p>\n";
}  

The data is appearing as normal in HTML view, however when I view source some of the results are appearing like so:

<p>Ariel
</p>
<p>Armstrong </p>
<p>Ascari
</p>
<p>Aston Mart</p>
<p>Audi
</p>
<p>Austin
</p>
<p>Austin Hea</p>
<p>Autobianch</p>
<p>Auverland
</p>
<p>Avanti
</p>
<p>Beijing
</p>
<p>Bentley
</p>

Notice some of the names are adding a break after the text forcing the closing p tag to go onto next line, what could be causing this?

Cheers

Answer 1

Have you checked for newline characters on the ends of those manufacturers? Try

echo "<p>".trim($row['model_make_display_name'])."</p>\n";

to see if they’re present. If so, simply cleanse the database (on entry or one-time) and you’ll be good to go.