PHP MYSQL fetching a TEXT with new lines

Answer 1

Maybe nl2br is what are you looking for?

Answer 2

Use this:

echo nl2br($result[msg]);

As long as browsers doesn't treat \r\n as real new-lines - you need to "convert" them to <br>'s with nl2br()

Answer 3

Also you can use:
REPLACE(`col_name`,"\n","<br />") as `col_name`
You must use this after SELECT.

Example code:
SELECT *, REPLACE(`name`,"\n","<br />") as `name` FROM xyz WHERE id="%s"