Working with Clobs

[eluser]imorris[/eluser]
The problem was that I needed to adjust how I was echo-ing out the DESCRIPTION result in my loop. I needed to change it from:

Code:

<td>&lt;?php echo $app->DESCRIPTION;?&gt;</td>

to

Code:

<td>&lt;?php echo str_replace("\r", "<br/>",$app->DESCRIPTION->load());?&gt;</td>

We added the str_replace because we wanted to keep the carriage returns that weren't displaying properly from the clob.

Can someone tell me what the ->load() method is doing in this situation and why this works?