How to 'nl2br' in CGridView

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I tried searching this in google and here in Yii Community (I tried searching after going through reading the docs/class reference regarding CGridView and it’s related classes), but I couldn’t find any topics related to my problem. Is it just me that I’m too dumb to miss out a simple problem?

Anyways, I have a database with text in it. It got lots of newlines, and the most basic way to preserve those newlines is to use nl2br. But when I tried to use it in CGridView, it didn’t work well as expected. Here’s an example of what I’m trying to say:


<?php $this->widget('zii.widgets.grid.CGridView', array(

	'id'=>'kerror-grid',

	'dataProvider'=>$model->search(),

	'filter'=>$model,

	'columns'=>array(

		'id',

		'error',

		'err_msg',

		array(

			'name'=>'ok',

			'value'=>'nl2br($data->ok)',

		),

		array(

			'name'=>'rc',

			'value'=>'nl2br($data->rc)',

		),

		array(

			'name'=>'ng',

			'value'=>'nl2br($data->ng)',

		),

		array(

			'class'=>'CButtonColumn',

		),

	),

)); ?>

This problem also exists in CDetailView.

The output is usually this:

Wherein it should’ve have been:

Am I the only one who ran into this problem or is there anyone else out there who ran into this problem but isn’t as dumb as me that he/she got it to work well?

2

Set the type to raw:


                array(

                        'name'=>'ok',

                        'value'=>'nl2br($data->ok)',

                        'type'=>'raw'

                ),
3

thanks a lot! Thanks for the fast and precise reply, it worked like a charm.

4

Alternatively:





'columns' => array(


	//...


	'ok:ntext',

	'rc:ntext',

	'ng:ntext',


	//...

),
5

pthamas, thank for the info!

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