PHP And JavaScript

[psycorpse]

I have a forum that I am in the process of working on. How ever I am tring to do a quote button that puts in what the last person said. However my problem is with the javascript. In the past I had win2k running php and mysql and mysql would put \n into the database for carriage returns. It isnt doing that now that I have reformatted and reinstalled everything. I dont know if it is a newer version or not. any way is there a way that I can get mysql to insert \n. the problem is that when there is a carrige return it moves the code down a line and makes javascript errors. but if the post doesnt have a carrigage return then it works fine.
If you understand what I am asking and have some possible answers let me know please.

Thanks.

[sgoku01]

I thought the function nl2br() inserts the \n

You use it this way:

$text = nl2br($text);

[psycorpse]

No all that does is where there is an \n it will insert <br> but thanks anyways.