Question

I’m running into an issue where the new lines in my text are not being displayed after retrieval. Here is how I’m inserting text into the DB:

$text = <<<MESSAGE
line1

line2

line3
MESSAGE;

$sql_text = '"'.mysql_real_escape_string($text).'"';

$sql = "INSERT INTO table (text_value) VALUES ($sql_text)";

Looking at the data in PHPMyAdmin I see the new lines but when I retrieve it like so:

echo str_replace("\r\n", "<br>\n", $text_from_db);

It looks like this:

line1 line2 line3

Any idea what I’m missing?

Answer 1

How do you know new lines are \r\n ? it could be just \n.

Use this statement to check,

echo nl2br($text_from_db);