Paragraph Retrieval from Mysql

Greetings of the Day!!!

When I was working with one of the website Designing, I noticed a strange problem. May be it's not a problem. But for a developer it looks like a problem. Many of us can come across such issue. So I thought of penning down the known solution for it.

When you store some paragraph of the text in a MySql database. The column type may be text or Varchar. After retrieving it with a PHP , I see that, it skips the paragraphs and just shows them ina a plain text. No paragraphs. But all the text together displays as one paragraph. Which looks very odd.

I just tried to change the column types, etc as everybody does. But all were in vein. Then I tried to search in web and I found a solution for that. The solution is very simple and effective. You need to use "nl2br( )" functions with the retrieval to show the data with the paragraph...

Eg:

When you want to get the job Description with the full paragraphs indentation from the Mysql, you can use nlebr() before fetching the data. Here is the snippet

echo nl2br($row_jobdetails['job_description']);

That's it. It does all the trick. Happy Coding!!!