Textboxes <br/>

[RisTar]

Hi,
I created a couple of web applications with php and mysql and i have
a problem that keeps coming up.

I want to use html text boxes that will send information to the
database but i want it to include line breaks....
until now i just typed in <br/> at the end of the line but this time
it's for a client and i have to implement line breaks to the database.
is there a php function that can handle that ?

Thanks!

[Dani]

nl2br?

[is_set]

use "/n"

[Dani]

use "/n"

Right, then the nl2br() function converts /n into <br />

[RisTar]

Yeah,, but my client is going to do the typing and he just want
to hit return and go to the next line without having to add extra characters

[Dani]

right, that's how it works :) the function nl2br() converts new lines into <br>s. That's what we use for our editor window here on DaniWeb.

[RisTar]

So if someone types a message in an HTML text box and hit
return, the computer generates a \n automatically ?

thanks for all your help...