How to force PHP to read newlines and returns as

Question

The title is a little off im sorry. however what the scenario IS.

I\'m reading from a MySQL Database the field format is \"mediumtext\".

At current it knows when

Answer 1

You can use

• nl2br — Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string

Example from Manual:

echo nl2br("Welcome\r\nThis is my HTML document", false);

will output

Welcome<br>
This is my HTML document