Inserting html in text string

[leatherback]

Hey All,

After some time, I finally got back to Php / mySQL, hoping to finally get my site working.
I have a text-box where users can insert information, and submit it to a MySQL database. Later this data is substracted from the database, and displayed in normal webpage. I would like to be able to show the text in the formatting the user submitted it, so that is including line-breaks etc.

Of course I will have to add slashes and replace any HTML present in the submitted text, to avoid query-problems etc.

Can anybody please advise me on how to replace text formatting to html (Such as replacing a line-break for <br> etc.)

Anybody an idea?

Thanks!

Jelle

[mykg4orce]

you can use this code to convert "\n" to a '<br>' or '<p>&nbsp;</p>'

$Content = str_replace("\n", "<br>", $Content); 

You may not want to allow HTML tags, as users can use javascript to generate malicious scripts. For that use:

$string = strip_tags($string, '');