I would like to be able to get html-formatted data from mysql, and turn the new lines into <br> or <p> tags.
I have been able to do this effectively with white-space: pre-wrap in the CSS, except for with IE7 and under.
My issue is that if I put a conditional nl2br() on the data if the browser is <=IE7, then it would create line breaks on the <li> tags, which already have line breaks, creating extra space between the bullets.
Is there a better way to do this?
My test page is:
And my code is (at this point in time):
...
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<style>
p { white-space:pre-wrap;white-space:-moz-pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word }
</style>
<body>
<?php
...
$conn = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pw) or die('Error connecting to mysql');
mysql_select_db($db);
mysql_set_charset('utf8', $conn);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_status='publish' AND post_type='post'");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo '<h2>'.$row['post_title'].'</h2>';
echo '<p>'.$row['post_content'].'</p>';
}
...
Are you trying to get around WordPress’s automatic Paragraph replacement? If so there is a built-in a function for you – http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpautop
If not this then can you be a little more specific – it looks like your test page link did not come through on the post?