Creating spaces in post??

[creocast]

I have a input from a form so that users can post commments on news articles. The code for the input part of the form looks like.

<textarea name=comment cols=20 rows=7 class=dropdowns title=comments></textarea>

Nothing special here! The problem is this variable $comments is written to a text file but when i echo it on the site any space, as in new paragraphs will not be shown. A post that shoould look like this:

Some text here

New paragraph

Will come out like this:

---

Some text here. New paragraph.

I need a way to be able to replace the gaps between paragraphs and turn them into <br> tags. Thanks in advanced for any help.

[altexis]

you're looking for the nl2br() function 🙂

[creocast]

Cheers altexis for pointing me in the right direction. I found this snippet of code which does the job a treat.

$comment = ereg_replace("(\r\n|\n|\r)", "<br />", $comment);