no breaks in my posts

alright so here is the problem.

I have a site, it has a news system and a few other things that users can post to. the psoting is good, except that it doesn't put breaks in the text. I hit enter and psot, and it stays all on one line.

like this:

Here
is
the
text

this would be
here is the text

I thought about using my ereg replace that iw as using to put in bold and italics, by replacing [br] with <br>
but that's too much work. It is put into the database as longtext : 9999

why does it do this? and what is the best way to do it if this isn't?

I suspect that there are breaks in the text, but when it gets re-displayed in HTML, they don't show because they have to be <br>s. You could try replacing \n (newline character) with <br> to see if that does it for you.

Not sure if you want to do this when it gets entered into the database, or rather when it gets pulled out and displayed.

nl2br() should do the trick. I expect no further explanation is needed.

sweet

once again devarticles is the greatest place ever. thanks guys that totally fixed it.