Maitain breaks in a paragraph

[Shyft]

How would I go about maintaining the formatting (particularly the cairrage returns) of a block of text entered into MySQL via a PHP form. I don't really even know where to begin with this one, so step-by-step instructions would be greatly appreciated!😃

[bastien]

use the [man]nl2br[/man] function

$text = nl2br($_POST[text']);

[Shyft]

Thank you SOOO much. I went back and added this lil snipped to about 5 of my web sites which I had tried to make auto-updating. =D