Saving/converting Carriage return to file

[Coffee123]

Hi,

Im making a simple News script for my website. Its all working, Posting news via form which make a new file on the server and retrieving a list of those files and extracting the data from them etc.

the problem is... and i just realised, is that I save all data as a string with a delimiter.

for example if i put this into a form (textarea):

This is an example

oh look an empty line.

It will save in the file on the server like this:

Topic Title¦This is an example

oh look an empty line.¦19th March 06¦Webmaster¦

As you can see the delimter is the ¦ so other info in there too that we can ignore, it obviously saved the Carriage Return.

Now the problem when i read this info back into the HTML for display it ignores the carriage return, is there a way I can get this back or convert it to <BR> for HTML display?

My functons, not all in same file

Data from form to be passed to News_SaveFile()

$Data = $Topic.''."¦".''.$Message.''."¦".''.Date('dS F y').''."¦".''.$User.''."¦";

Function News_SaveFile($Text){                     // News_SaveFile()

Global $News_Dir;
$FileName = time(); 

   // Save file
    $File = fopen("$News_Dir/$FileName",'w');
        fputs($File,$Text);
    fclose($File);
}

Function News_GetFiles(){                          // News_GetFiles() 

   Global $News_Dir;
   $TempList='';  // Store array to transfer to sesion later
   $dh  = opendir($News_Dir);// open the directory

// loop through files and add to array
while (false !== ( $File= readdir($dh))):
   if ($File<>".." && $File<>".") {
      $TempList[] = $File;
    }   
endwhile;
   $_SESSION['News_FileList'] = $TempList; // transfer list to session
}

I hope ive given enough info.

[thorpe]

[man]nl2br/man.

[laserlight]

is there a way I can get this back or convert it to <BR> for HTML display?

[man]nl2br/man

[Coffee123]

cool, thought id have to write my own =D

i just found another problem.

I Use this to read the data from a file (very messy)

// $filedata = string read from file using [B]$filedata=fgets($file);[/B]
while ($x < strlen($filedata)):
	   $temp="";
	   $temp=substr($g,$x,1);

   if ($temp=='¦') {
       $go[$c]=$temp2;
       ++$c;
       $temp2="";
   }else{
       $temp2=$temp2.''.$temp;	
   }
   ++$x;
endwhile;

 print ("

    <table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3>
    <TR>
    <TD width=300>Topic: $go[0]</TD><TD width=150>Date: $go[2]</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
    <TD colspan=2>$go[1]<p align=right><i>posted by: $go[3]</i></p></TD>
    </TR>
    </table><BR>
");

The problem is that if when reading the string it stops reading when it find a carriage return. the problem seems to be the way i read the data from the file using $g=fgets($file) as this only returns data upto the carriage return.

[Coffee123]

Woohoo =D

Problem solved fgets() breaks if it hits a \n so i used file_get_contents() and all is working now =D