Preserve Line Breaks From TextArea When Writing To MySQL

Question

I\'m using a textarea to enable users to input comments. However, if the users enters new lines, the new lines don\'t appear when they are outputted. Is there any way to m

Answer 1

Got my own answer: Using this function from the data from the textarea solves the problem:

function mynl2br($text) { 
   return strtr($text, array("\r\n" => '
', "\r" => '
', "\n" => '
')); 
} 

More here: http://php.net/nl2br