[Custard7A]

Indeed. Actually, all you need has already been suggested by Fou-Lu, but since he knows everything ever I think that his examples might go over your head rather easily.

This code he posted on the previous page:

PHP Code:


printf('<p class="paragraph">%s</p>', implode('</p><p>', explode("\n", trim($paragraph)))); 


I suppose the best way to look at this is backwards, since that is more or less the way it will run.
- You pass $paragraph into a trim function, to make sure there isn't hanging off whitespace.
- This is then exploded into an array, with the break being on newlines.
- It's then put back together with implode, however, this adds </p><p> after each item as it does so.
- The result of all that will be put in the position of the %s in the first part of the printf.

Making sense so far? That means if your database output this:

This is a paragraph. \n This is another paragraph.

The above would reach the page as:

<p class="paragraph">This is a paragraph.</p><p>This is another paragraph.</p>

Edit: It would probably be more like this, actually (And I don't know if the newlines stay or not):

<p class="paragraph">This is a paragraph. </p><p> This is another paragraph.</p><p></p>

This would be used like so, in your code:

PHP Code:


 <?php

  // ... Other stuff

  echo "<b>Name:</b> ". $name."<br/>"."<br/>" ; 
  echo "<b>Address:</b>  ". $address."<br/>"."<br/>"."<br/>"; 
  echo "<b>Paragraph(s) below:</b>"."<br/>"; 

  ?>

  <div class="paragraph"> 
 
  <?php 
  printf('<p class="paragraph">%s</p>', implode('</p><p>', explode("\n", trim($paragraph))));
  ?>   

  </div>

For formatting that end result, you have two options as mentioned above by Fou-Lu. Assigning the class durring the implosion so all elements end up with your class, example (Note: implosion):

PHP Code:



printf('<p class="paragraph">%s</p>', implode('</p><p class="paragraph">', explode("\n", trim($paragraph)))); 


Or using "inheritance" (or more correctly, a descendant selector) in the CSS:

p.paragraph p { /* style for p tags inside p tags with class paragraph */ }

Hope this helps you understand it all a bit. (Hope I explained it all right ).