Retaining formatting for Notes on Accounts/Contacts

[johnschmuff]

I'll try and explain this best I can... I have a custom page that will output the notes on the account. So simple code looks like this,

$note = new Note();
$note->retrieve($account) or ($contact)

echo note->description;

In the edit or view notes the formatting is retained, but if you output it like the above method you get one long string with no line breaks.

So say this is the example message.

Name: Smith
Status: Open

it outputs like this Name: Smith Status: Open (notice no line breaks) Please can someone point me in the right direction with this?

[andopes]

Replace

 echo note->description; 
  

By

 echo nl2br($note->description);