formatting my output

[Smad]

hi all

Is there a simple way of auto enlosing clumps of text from a mysql database in paragraph tags?

TIA

[hughie]

very basically

echo '<p>'.$row[Output].'</p>';

not sure thats what you were after though.
ta,
hughie

[lazydog]

maybe you need the function nl2br?

[Smad]

hi thanks for replys

I was looking at the function that inserts breaks, what i think i will need to do is look for whitespace then replace it with a p tag.

basically i want it to work like this box, that is the way text is enter is the way it is then displayed on the page.

[mincklerstraat]

The way this is usually done is using nl2br.
"This box", the one I'm typing in and the one you were typing your message in, lets you type and:

there, I just did some carriage returns and lo and behold there are spaces! Thing is, these are returned from "this box" (which is a <textarea>) in the form of linebreaks - or rather, \n (and \r in macs, and \r\n in windows). HTML doesn't display line breaks this way, so you just do:
$html = nl2br($html);
and that converts the linebreaks that come in from the textarea to linebreaks as displayed in HTML.

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[Smad]

now i see. thank you for pointing me in the right direction