"<br>" on "enter" in textarea

[Panjabel]

I have a textarea but when i press enter it doesn't make a new line before adding to database

i want, when i press enter to make a new line in text, lke "<br>"

any advice ?

thanks

[lur]

http://php.net/nl2br

[Panjabel]

<?php
$comment = $_POST['textarea_comment'];
$comment = nl2br($comment);
print $comment;
?>

it doesn't make a new line when i press enter in textarea

why ?

[Panjabel]

up

[Panjabel]

it works but it doesn't insert n mysql the new line, i mean it doesn't add "<br>"

[Daniel0]

It DOES make a new line ( \n ), but not an HTML line break ( <br /> ).

[Panjabel]

confused with your code

???

[GingerRobot]

A newline character is not the same as an HTML line break. Whenever you OUTPUT your data that you have stored, you'll need the nl2br() function. You dont use it before you enter the data into the database.

[Panjabel]

$comment = nl2br($comment);

echo "insert into site_database.comentarii set `comment`='$comment'";

it doesn't print the new lines

why ?