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Vladimir said:

04/18/04, 109 26 2004 2004:%i:1082316406 15:26:46

Hi,

I haven't tried yet but let's say I've put poems into a database. I use PHP to extract each poem to display or edit on a webpage. But poems are not just one-word text and they contain line breaks. Does the database store this information as well? If not, how can I make it do so? Thanks.

Joe Gillespie said:

04/19/04, 110 05 2004 2004:%i:1082361941 04:05:41

Line breaks are an intregral part of 'plain text', you just have to make sure that you are using the correct flavour.

There are three types of line break:-

Mac - CR Ascii 13
DOS - CRLF Ascii 13 Ascii 10
UNIX - LF Ascii 10

If you make sure you are uing the UNIX LF, you will get your line breaks.

Vladimir said:

04/21/04, 112 30 2004 2004:%i:1082593849 20:30:49

Is there a character limit on a database entry, something like 255? Because a poem won't fit then....

Vladimir said:

05/01/04, 122 03 2004 2004:%i:1083441825 16:03:45

I looked at a book and it said to add

tags in the actual database field

Mountie said:

05/04/04, 125 26 2004 2004:%i:1083680788 10:26:28

Vladimir said:
Is there a character limit on a database entry, something like 255? Because a poem won't fit then....

It depends on the way your table was set up. Most DB implementations allow you to specify the type and size of data to be stored in a particular field. For example, MS Access allows you to do text fields up to 255 characters, as well as Memo fields with up to several thousand characters. Check your particular DB's documentation for specifics.

Vladimir said:

05/17/04, 138 22 2004 2004:%i:1084767755 00:22:35

I use MySQL, and I created a TEXT field to include the poems. However, in the inserting page, even though the line breaks show in the textbox, the line breaks are gone when I extract it out of the database.

My only solution right now is to add
s right in the fields...but that is not practical.

Jdenny said:

05/26/04, 147 50 2004 2004:%i:1085583019 10:50:19

I would get it to automatically convert CR/LF to
when it saves it into the DB.

Terakris said:

05/26/04, 147 03 2004 2004:%i:1085583802 11:03:22

I would have got it to convert CR/LF from out of the database instead. This way, if you have an online admin screen where someone is inputing the data, they dont need to know to put in
when they put a CR/LF in or even get worried when they start to see them in the admin screen.

Depends on your setup really i guess.

Vladimir said:

05/27/04, 148 11 2004 2004:%i:1085641900 03:11:40

Thanks for your suggestions. But what is CR/LF and how do you convert it to
? I think doing that while displaying the data is a better idea then saving the
s in the field.

Terakris said:

05/27/04, 148 14 2004 2004:%i:1085656474 07:14:34

Carrage Return/Line Feed (or the equivilent of you pressing the return key).

Not sure how to convert it in PHP as its not my best area... can do it in ASP if that helps!

Terakris said:

05/27/04, 148 50 2004 2004:%i:1085673032 11:50:32

Found this... hope it helps:

http://www.zend.com/manual/function.str-replace.php

Jdenny said:

05/28/04, 149 38 2004 2004:%i:1085787532 19:38:52

I thought you said the database was not storing the CR/LF ? that's why I said convert before storage.

If the database saves it all correctly with new-lines intact the simply wrap the oputput on the page in

 tags!

Vladimir said:

05/29/04, 150 19 2004 2004:%i:1085815188 03:19:48

Ok thanks guys. I solved it.

Scott Thompson said:

11/13/08, 318 33 2008 2008:%i:1226583196 08:33:16

Pretty easy... i hope you solved it properly without XSS or SQL injection attacks?

It SHOULD be something like:

$text = htmlentities(mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['article']), ENT_QUOTES);

and then you should insert $text in to the database. when you display it, to show the line spaces it should be like:

print nl2br($article);

Kind regards,
Scott