Question

I just started learning how to make a website. I’m making a comment box which is used to enter blog entries. Let’s say I types in an entry with 3 lines, and it will show up the same format in mySQL table. But when i try to output it, it becomes one line.

//Here's what i did to output the data.
$entry = $row['entry'];
echo "<p>". $entry ."</p>";

//INPUT
Hello,
TEST LINE2
TEST LINE3

//OUTPUT
Hello, TEST LINE2 TEST LINE3

Answer 1

You could use http://php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

“Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string”

$entry = $row['entry'];
echo "<p>". nl2br($entry) ."</p>";