saving textarea text &quot;as-is&quot;?

saving textarea text "as-is"?

kark_1999

I have a messageboard on my site that works great. However, I have to add html tags in order to force a line-break, etc. Does anyone know how I can actually interpret the entirety of the textarea the way it looks on the screen, including line breaks and <?php tags?

Thanks.

LordShryku

[man]htmlentities[/man] and [man]nl2br[/man]

kark_1999

Thanks!

kark_1999

Works great. However, now I'm in a bind. I want the user to be able to add a link in the message. If I add <a href=http://www.yahoo.com>yahoo</a>, then it will show up exactly like that - not a working link.
Any suggestions?

LordShryku

Well, you'll have to make a decision. htmlentites converts all < and > to their html equivalents. If you don't want to do that, remove that call. Then for php tags, just do str_replaces.
ie.
$text = str_replace('<?', '&lt;?', $text);
$text = str_replace('?>', '?&gt;', $text);