line breaks in a textarea

Question

I know when saving a textarea you can use the nl2br() or str_replace to change the /n to br tags etc. However what im not sure about how to insert line breaks into a textare

Answer 1

assign('test', "This is a \n Test");
$smarty->display('index.tpl');
?>

In index.tpl

{$test|nl2br}

In HTML

This is a

test