formatting to textarea

[Anon]

hi, I'm doing a simple news posting thing, how do I format what is displayed to conform to what I write in the texarea? like if they hit

enter

a couple
times? what I'm getting now is one large string rather than coming out as "enter"'s

[spxdcz]

In the textarea, the 'enter' key will insert newline characters. When you display the text, newlines characters will not break the sentence on screen, as displayed HTML (generally) ignores newlines.

Try wrapping the nl2br() function around the text that you are displaying, e.g.

echo nl2nr($textarea_text);

This should convert each newline into an HTML break tag.

[Anon]

i recieved an error..
"
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: nl2nr() in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\simplepost.php on line 16
"

[spxdcz]

Sorry - bad typo there... should have been

nl2br

(i.e. NewLine to BReak)