Question

One of the fields in our PHP page is a description. Occasionally there are line spaces included to indicate a new paragraph. However, when pulling this data from the database table the text is rendered in one block without the spaces. How can I parse text from database table with the line-space in the final rendered PHP page? Thanks!

This is the part of the code that pulls the text from the database, which includes a function to parse anything beginning with http:// as a clickable link:

NB: $det[9] is the text

 <?php 
    echo preg_replace_callback(
        '/http:\/\/([,\%\w.\-_\/\?\=\+\&\~\#\$]+)/',
        create_function(
            '$matches',
            'return \'<a href="http://\'.  $matches[1] .\'">\'.  $matches[1] .\'</a>\';'
        ),
        $det[9]
    );
    ?>

Answer 1

I think u search this function nl2br

<?php
$description = "This\r\nis\n\ra\nstring\r";
echo nl2br($description);
?>

The above example will output:

This<br />
is<br />
a<br />
string<br />