TEXTAREA >> MYSQL field

[Anon]

Hello people

I have a form that send stuff into MySQL table. problem is that all the text entered into the TEXTAREA (similar to the body of the message here) becomes one large paragraph!

Even if it was initially spaced in separate lines and paragraphs.
I tried using <pre> when reading the text into my page but then all the text become a very long line!!

How can I avoid this? I hope you understand my point. I want to be able to show the text as was typed in by the sender instead of one large paragraph.

Thanks a bunch
Simon

[subwiz]

use the following php functions:

htmlspecialchars(): this fn. converts html special characters (" to &quot😉.

and

nl2br(): this fn. converts the newline to html <br> tag.

i use the above fn.s thus:

$content=nl2br(htmlspecialchars($content));

-Subhash.
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