Problems showing a newline within a textarea, once grabbed info from within a db

[Robin H]

As deliteblogger said, be sure to use double quotes for your newline.

<?php
$newline = "\n";
$text = 'Hello world';

echo '<textarea>';

echo $text . $newline; // -> Hello world + newline
echo $text . "\n"; // -> Hello world + newline
echo 'Hello World' . "\n"; // -> Hello world + newline

echo '</textarea>';
?>

Those three ways will work.