That's right but if the variable is initialised by the form and you want to write the variable in to your html-document it's better to write this
$content = nl2br(htmlentities(stripslashes($content))); ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Clifford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 3:15 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] TEXTAREA ... $content = nl2br($content); That will convert all newline characters into <br> tags. HTH Martin Clifford Homepage: http://www.completesource.net Developer's Forums: http://www.completesource.net/forums/ >>> José Moreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/17/02 09:15AM >>> hello ... im sorry to bother with a non-db question but i searched for this and got 0 record :P its all about the wrappig in textareas: how can i convert the end of line/ line breaks ['enter' keys] that the user hits while filling a textarea so that when i display the record content the text does break where the user intended ??? ex.: <textarea>bla blah blah bla blah blah</textarea> if i echo() this textarea value i will apear in a single line even if the user pressed enter 2 break the line -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
