HTML forum format input to

[Daguse]

Ok I need to take a block of text from a HTML forum textarea and save it as is, with line breaks and all. Now I already use htmlentities() but it does not save the line breaks. I am going upload this to a mysql DB. How would I do this. Thanks for your help.

[poirot]

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Ok I need to take a block of text from a HTML forum textarea and save it as is, with line breaks and all. Now I already use htmlentities() but it does not save the line breaks. I am going upload this to a mysql DB. How would I do this. Thanks for your help.
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[Daguse]

Thanks, poirot!

nl2br works great, but I have found two more problems.

1st! When I go back to edit the forum I see the <Br/> rather the the line break it self.
To edit it the forum I just set the value to the value from the SQL db. So the script will look like <TEXTAREA>$postmessage</TEXTAREA>. So is there a way to set <br/> to make a line break in the Textarea?


2nd! Is there a way to set up htmlentities() so that I can post image and link tags in HTML formate? So say I post

Check out this "G4 Mailbox" <img src="http://craphound.com/images/g4mailboxauckland.jpg">

how to I set it up so it will post the text with the "" and other HTML thing but still post the image?
When posting I have the post wraped with nl2br() and htmlentities().
[code]$postmessage = nl2br(htmlentities($postmessage))[/code]


I know this is a 2 part post but if any one could please point me in the right derection.

Thank you!
The PHP nub, Daguse!