Return in a Text Box as a New Line?

[Niaad]

I'm sure this is a very simple thing to do, since every major forum out there manages it.

All I want to do is make it so when somebody presses enter in a multiline text box, it actually shows up that way when it's saved to the database, and then displayed on a page.

I think this is done by reading where the user pressed the enter key, and then replacing that with a <br> tag (or \n). However, I'm not really sure how to go about making this work...

 

[keith]

$text = str_replace("\n", "<br>", $text);

 

[megapuzik]

$text = nl2br($text);

:biggrin2:

 

[Niaad]

I swear, there's a PHP function for everything...

Thanks!