Html <-> Ascii

[Newrules]

I must create a textarea and its DATA will be SAVED on mysql and then eventually SHOWN in ANOTHER .php file as HTML TEXT.
Like posting messages in this forum
But when you type " " or you break line HTML dont understand
that it needs '&nbp'(nbsp)and '<br>', so I need to make this conversion WHEN SAVING
My friend developed a function that does it
BUT I'm suspecting there is an inbuild php function to that.
Could someone tell if I'm right or if maybe I'M WRONG??

Newrules

[tuf-web_co_uk]

the function which is built it, like you suspected is

nl2br();

eg of use.

<?
$var = nl2br($_POST['var']); // where var is submitted from a form
echo $var;
?>

may output something like

This Is An Example
Of Using nl2br Function
In Php

hth

[Newrules]

This only converts LINE breaks
HTML dont understand " " character
It needs to convert TO & nbsp
No idea how

[LordShryku]

$this = str_replace(" ", " ", $text2change);