PHP & TEXTAREA

[Anon]

Hi, I have a textarea in my form, and say you type:

blah blah
(u hit enter and its a blank line)
blah

when I then display it with php using 'echo' it appears as:

blah blah blah

and not:

blah blah
(blank line)
blah

Im storing it in a MySQL table, anyway I can get it to echo out like it was typed (with blank lines showing a new paragraph)

Thanks

[Anon]

Just pass the textarea variable throuhg the nl2br() function!

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Note: pass the data through nl2br() when you print it, NOT when you put it into the database.

[Anon]

Thanks it worked!