form text mangled when writing to file

[powlow]

hey,

i have a guestbook script that takes input from a form and writes it to a text file.

when i write the message to the text file, the text is getting mangled when there are returns in the message (i.e. new lines)

this code writes the message to the text file.

$date    = stripslashes($date);
$author  = stripslashes($author);
$message = nl2br(stripslashes($message));
$fp = fopen($GLOBALS['guestbookfile'],"a");
fwrite($fp,"\n".$date."|".$author."|".$message);
fclose($fp);

for example :

12.05.2002|powlow|bla^M<br />
^M<br />
bla ^M<br />
^M<br />
sim sim

should be :
12.05.2002|powlow|bla<br><br>bla<br><br>sim sim

those damn ^M are messing it all up!
i think the ^M is a newline and a carriage return.

any idea on how to use php functions or substitutions to get rid of them?

thanks for any help
-paulo

[Anon]

Are you using a Windows system? If so, then you'll need to fwrite "\r\n" instead of just "\n".

No, ^M is not a newline and a carriage return - it's just a newline. that's the problem.