Addng empty lines in Mysql/php

[MedianSoft]

I got a problem, I got a long text ( a review) in one of my fields of mysql... now if I look with mysql managment, I got empty lines where needed to break up the text..

But if I then fetch that record and display that field with $row->Review, it for some reason totally negelcts those empty fields and puts everything after each other, creating one big unreadable text block

[cranial-bore]

if you just echo text the line breaks will have no effect, view the source of your HTML page and you'll see the lines, but whitespace doesn't effect rendering (HTML 101).
This is not caused by PHP or MySQL.

You probably need the nl2br function or this paragraphing function to sort it out.