Quick form question

[Irksome]

It's been a while since I've done any PHP, so I'm making a simple guestbook script just to get back into the swing of it. I've managed to get it working just fine except for one thing.

 

When you type some text in the text field that has multiple lines and submit it, it will produce the entry all on one line.

 

For example this entry:

 

Testing 123

 

Testing 123

 

Testing 123

 

Will appear as:

 

Testing 123 Testing 123 Testing 123

 

I don't even know what the process is called to solve this. I can do it by entering HTML into the text box but that's something I'd rather avoid.

 

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

[RichardRotterdam]

you could use a RTE (rich text editor) javascript

[landavia]

plz type your code here.. we can't help without view your script

 

btw.. how about use

 

<b>$text = str_replace("\n","<br>",$row[str]);</b>

[revraz]

nl2br ?

[Irksome]

Oh sorry forgot about the code

 

<?php

include("config.php");

  if($submit)

  {//begin of if($submit).

      $title = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['title']);
      $user = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['user']);
      $text2 = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['text2']);

	//run query

         $result = mysql_query("INSERT INTO scnews (title, dtime, user, text2)

                       VALUES ('$title',NOW(),'$user','$text2')",$connect);

          //print success message.

          echo "<b>Thank you! entry added successfully!<br>";

          echo "<meta http-equiv=Refresh content=0;url=index.php>";

  }//end of if($submit).


else

  {//begin of else

      ?>
      <br>
      <h3>Add news article</h3>
      <form method="post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>">
      Title: <input name="title" size="40" maxlength="255">
      <br>
      Name: <input name="user" size="40" maxlength="255">
      <br>
      Comments: <textarea name="text2" rows="7" cols="30"></textarea>
      <br>
      <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Sign Guestbook">
      </form>
      <?

  }//end of else

?>