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Why entered key word is not store in database?

I’m writing a simple page in which users can enter a testimonial about the website into a textarea box. This gets stored in my database inside a table called testimonials under “testimonial” which is of type text(1000)

When I try to retrieve the testimonials and present them and an unordered list, newlines get ignored.

For example:

I hate this website.

It has tons of bugs.

Will print as

• I hate this website. It has tons of bugs

How would one preserve the newline the user entered?

EDIT: I should mention that the testimonial is stored correctly with newlines in the database, when I look at it in phyMyAdmin

Answer 1

As a browser will not render \n you need to use a function called nl2br() to replace new lines with <br/>