Forum question

[Anon]

I'm trying to build my first forum, and one of the problems I've run into is when the user enters their message into the text area. Everything works perfectly except that it doesn't recognize any new lines. If I were to type in this:

Here's my post.
Heres a new line.
and another.

It would post on my board like this:
Here's my post. Here's a new line. and another.

What can I do to make it recognize new lines?

Ben

[modify]

try nl2br; HTML doesn't recognize the newline character (\n) as a linefeed. It recognizes <BR>. That should do it.

[Anon]

Now I know to use nl2br but how can I insert that into the textarea value?

For example. If $message contains the following:

testing newlines.\n
still testing.\n
and again.\n

but since HTML can't read the new line character how do I go into the string and convert every \n to nl2br?

Thanks,
Ben

[Anon]

before adding to the database, use this line:

$body = str_replace("\n", '<br>', $body); // better than nl2br()

nl2br adds a break but doesnt remove the \n. in some cases this can be bad.

heres a board im working on:
http://xhawk.net/discussion/

-paul
http://xhawk.net

[Anon]

Thanks! Your discussion is smooth - I'm a graphic designer BTW - so maybe I could help you out with the logo. I've done work on www.dupontregistry.com, www.canyons.com, www.jandbaviation.com, etc. I do primarily flash but can do graphics too.

Late,
Ben