new paragraphs and line breaks

[Anon]

Hi There,

I'm having people fill out an online form and they're writing small stories with paragraphs (simply by pressing enter a couple times).

How can I parse that input and replace all their enters with html < P > paragraph tags?

Thanks in advance.

[Anon]

Not shown is the \n newline sign.
You can replace these with whatever you want.

There is a function in PHP for this and it's called

nl2br() or newline_to_br()

It replaces
\n
with <br>

That function is smarter than trying to do it yourself because you don't want to build exceptions for UNIX \r and Win32 \n.

Give it a try.

PS.
When people push

the Enter button twice (a paragraph shift) then that will be replaced with
<br>
<br>
by the above mentioned function.

PS2. I don't know the difference between nl2br() and newline_to_br().