line breaks from textarea to database and then to display

[Fostav]

I am using a ready script, which includes account registration and a few functions. Users can edit a text area on their profile which is saved on a database, is a description for something.

Editing the template of my script/web i would like to make it, when a user writes for example:

One
Two
Three

to be displayed like this also cause right now its like

One Two Three

I'made a re-search on the file's and found out the followings:

$description_prepare = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), ' ', $FORM['description']);
$TMPL['description'] = $DB->escape($description_prepare, 1);
$TMPL['description'] = $this->bad_words($TMPL['description']);
$TMPL['description'] = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9 .,\-]/', '', $TMPL['description']);

as you can see the script is replacing the line breaks with a space ' '. i removed this part completely and made it like

$TMPL['description'] = $DB->escape($FORM['description'], 1);
$TMPL['description'] = $this->bad_words($TMPL['description']);
$TMPL['description'] = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9 .,\-]/', '', $TMPL['description']);

but now when i am editing the description for example from

One Two Three

to

One
Two Three

i am getting back

Onern Two Three

How can i solve this? Any idea? Thanks in advance

[Barand]

Leave the line breaks in the text when saving to the database.

 

If outputting to a text area then leave the breaks as they are.

 

If outputting to to other parts of a page, use nl2br($text) to add <br> to the line breaks.

[Fostav]

fixed thanks