count total <br> in textarea

[robert_gsfame]

It's easy to count string length in textarea as we can use strlen

 

 

$message=$_POST['message'];

$length=strlen($message); ---------> to count total string

 

But if i want to count total <br> in textarea, can i do that??

 

$message1=$_POST['message'];

$count=substr_count($message1,'<br>')

i dont think it would be correct

 

thanks

[robert_gsfame]

sorry should be

 

$count=substr_count($message1,"\n");

 

;D ;D