change <br /> into \n ????

[Anon]

hello all,

I have used nl2br() to change the textarea values in to <br> but now when I dispaly that data into html format it shows "<br />" after parsing the html

like it shows on broser

I am simple guy !!
<br />
looking for a girl
<br />
seeking friendship
<br />
loving friends

then I applied a function

$string = eregi_replace('<br[[:space:]]/?[[:space:]]>',
"\n", $string);

but this is doing nothing ..

I am stuck ..

Any Idea ??

Thanx a lot !!

[Anon]

Just use
$str = str_replace('<br />', '', $str);

[Anon]

<?
function br2nl($text) {
return str_replace('<br />', "\n", $text);
}
?>