HTML and PHP question

[Anon]

Hi Guys,
I'm creating an admin page.
i have an HTML text field like the following:

<textarea name=info cols=50 rows=8></textarea>

What i want to know is that when the user puts text into this field i want the user to be able to put line breaks etc without using the HTML tags like the <BR> tag. Can this be done and if so what do i need to do inorder for this to work?
The data will be inserted into a mySQL database.

Anu ideas?
Cheers,
suzyQ

[Anon]

use the nl2br() function.
I would recommend not storing the <br>'s in the db. Only use nl2br() for displaying the data.