Formatting text entered through a form?

[Anon]

I'm using a standard textarea form box to input data into a mysql db. Is there any way to have the db recognize a <br> without putting it in the textarea box. I've done this with a cgi script before but can't seem to get it with php.

example:

This is input into textbox.

This is the next line after to returns.

Result in DB:

This is input into textbox.<br>
<br>
This is the next line after to returns.

Thanks in advance.

[ggoblin]

I believe you are searching for a php function called nl2br, which does exactly what you want - changes all newlines to html &ltbr&gt tags, ie. each \n character is replaced by &ltbr&gt one.
Hope this helped.