Detecting a carriage return

[xeonaphobe]

Hi there,

I'm having another problem with my flat file blog that I hope you can help me with. I'm trying to set it so that whenever a user submits a comment, the script will automatically detect when the user has used a line break. At the moment, the script seems to just ignore this when displaying the comments and posts one large paragraph.

Any ideas as to how I can get around this?

Thanks very much in advance :)
Neil

[xeonaphobe]

Right, i've read on another forum that using Javascript is one way to solve the problem. However, i'd still rather deal with it within my add comment php script. I take it if there is a way of doing it with php, i'd be better off using the php method?

To be honest, if I did go with the JS method, i'm not entirely sure how i'd set the php variable to the modified JS one without having to submit it again...

Cheers,
Neil

[jamesa]

What you need is PHP's nl2br function. Works like this:

echo nl2br($somevar);

or

echo nl2br("some text");

It add html break tags to all the linebreaks. See: [us2.php.net ]