<BR> Tag within textarea

[ndorfnz]

I am having a user enter "comments" within a textarea. Upon submitting the form I want store anytime they had hit enter while entering comments within the mysql db...

How do I accomplish this without the user having to enter <br> while they are typing comments????

Appreciate the input!!!

[LordShryku]

[man]nl2br[/man]

[ndorfnz]

So based on a users input, this function automatically writes <BR> to be stored in the db?

[LordShryku]

When someone hits enter in the textarea, it create a newline(\n) character. After this function has been called, it'll replace all of those newline characters with html breaks.

[zapa]

use br2nl function when getting information that has Line Returns or New line

Textarea automtic use hidden \n when you submit to database its ok, but when viewing you like to see the <BR> in HTML. so use nl2br when getting that infro from db

example:

$lines = "Line1 \n Line2 \n" // simulation of textrarea input

show it with .... nl2br($lines);

doing this will help organize and read from Database easy. its little sloopy looking.

right no.. l8r