Need Advice! MySQL Field Type and data display

Question

DW8/PHP/MySQL
This is a two part question.
First off I am builing a database (mySQL) driven review site
with PHP. I am working on creating my database, however I would
like some input/advice from others. Below are some example fields
that will be in my database. Can anyone give me advice on what
field type I should use on each
Name
Address_1
Address_2
City
State
Zip
Phone
Web_Address
Email_Address
Date_Reviewed
Review_Description
Username
Password
My second question.
I made a simular test site using Dreamweaver and got it to
work ok. However the formating on my description did not look
correct. On my input page I used a large multi-line form box. When
I hit enter to divide the paragraphs it looked fine in the iput
box, but once the same data was pulled from the database the
paragraphs where all ran together in one large text block. What do
I need to do to keep my input formating?
Thanks in advance for any help
Charles

Answer 1

newhorizonhosting.com wrote:
> Can anyone dive me advice on what
> field type I should use on each/
>
The following ones should all be VARCHAR. Set the length of
each one so
that it easily accommodates the longest likely entry.
Name
Address 1
Address 2
City
State
Zip
Phone
Web Address
Email Address
Date Reviewed - DATE
Review/Description - TEXT
Username - VARCHAR
Password - VARCHAR (length needs to be 40 if you encrypt)
> once the same data was pulled from the database the
paragraphs where
> all ran together in one large text block. What do I need
to do to keep my input
> formating?
When displaying the text, pass the variable that contains it
to nl2br().
echo nl2br($row_recordsetName['myParagraphs']);
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
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