line breaks

[mjl4975]

Hi I am fairly new to PHP. I have a web form that is entering text into a mysql database via a textarea.

This all works fine but when I read from the database I lose all the line breaks that were entered in the textarea. Is there a way to to stop this from happening.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Michael

[epimeth]

how are you storing the line breaks?
how are you displaying the data from the textarea?

[mjl4975]

I solved the problem, I am now using the nl2br() function to read the line breaks.

Thanks