losing carriage returns in text field

[dcooley]

I am wanting to show contact info for a family.  The output I get is putting everything on one line.  It is ignoring the carriage returns.  My field in my database is a calculated field with carriage returns after certain info. See below for how I want the output to look.

 

I am displaying the data in a table.  This is the line where I call the getField function.

 

$table3_data .=  $related_record->getField('HOH Info::DirectoryCombinedText');

 

 

 

Output looks like:

Parent1 Name & Parent2 Name Children: Child1, Child2, etc Address City, State Zip (h) (111)111-1111 Parent1 Name (111)111-1111 Parent2 (111)111-1111 Parent2 Name - email@address.com Parent2 Name - email@address.com

 

What I want output to look like:

Parent1 Name & Parent 2 Name

Children: Child1 Name, Child2 Name,etc

Address

City, State, Zip

(h) (111) 111-1111

Parent1 Name (111) 111-1111

Parent2 Name (111) 111-1111

Parent1 Name - email@address.com

Parent2 Name - email@address.com

[dcooley]

Figured it out.  I used nl2br() and it works great.

 

$table3_data .=  nl2br($related_record->getField('HOH Info::DirectoryCombinedText'));

[Elkpodemiami]

Could you provide a sample so I can try to understand you a bit better?

[webko]

It's a standard php function to turn carriage returns and new lines into something that web browsers understand...

 

nl2br($field) will take

 

data

data

 

and make it

 

data<br>data

 

Which will then be shown in a browser as

 

data

data