Formatting text to html in php?

[Will_W]

I'm working on a small backend admin area. One feature is to allow the webmaster to insert data into a textarea and then submit it to the proper page. So they can update content.
The webmaster I guess does not know html and I was wondering with php I would be able to format the text in the textarea to html. Or I guess if worse comes to worse add a

<br>

tag to every line that extends 58 characters. Does anyone know a real easy way to do this?

[megachrisp]

With textarea's, if you have wrapping turned on, the user doesn't usually put in carriage returns, so you might just end up putting in line breaks.

I don't know of any sort of function in PHP that would format the text for you, but you could easily write one and just pass the text to it.

[Dean]

$text = ereg_replace("\n","<br>", $text);

will convert any line breaks in the text area to a <BR> Tag

example:

line1
line2
line3

will make: line1<br>line2<br>line3

[Will_W]

oh cool that worked thanks!!