Replace a carriage return with <br>

[Anon]

I am having users fill out the box in <textarea> and evertime once they submit the textarea for, I need to auto replace all of the carriage returns with a literal<br> so that when I retrieve the info later from the database, it looks on screen they way they typed it within he text box.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[cheesehead]

There are a number of ways to do this. Here are two so you can choose the one you prefer.

First is the nl2br() function.
e.g.
$textarea = nl2br( $textarea );

Second is using ereg_replace().
e.g.
$textarea = ereg_replace( "\r\n", "<br>", $textarea );

Either of those should do the job.