user hits "enter" on form, form display on next page newline?

[BLiZZaRD]

If I make a textarea in a form, and the user is filling it out and uses the carriage return to go to the next line, when they submit the form the carriage return is replaced with a single space.

Is there something I can put either on the form coding or on the second page that will make the carriage returns show as a new line on the rendered form?

It is in re: this post

Thanks guys.

[thetestingsite]

Look in nl2br.

Hope this helps.

[Twey]

Or better, provide a markup language like Markdown so that the user can format it appropriately.

[BLiZZaRD]

I already tried nl2br, and it didn't work for me. I probably did it wrong, but I got parse errors on the 2nd page.

As is obvious, this isn't for me, I don't have a need for it right now other than finishing that script, but it may come in handy someday.

If I have this on the first page of the form:

<textarea name=Whatever rows=12 cols=50></textarea>

and I have this on the second:

<?php echo $_POST["Whatever"]; ?>

where would I use the nl2br()? I have tried in the declaration of "whatever" I have tried making each $_POST... a string with it in header declaration, on the first page, on the second page...

Nothing worked.

[thetestingsite]

You would use it like so:

<?php echo nl2br($_POST['Whatever']); ?>

Hope this helps.

[BLiZZaRD]

I tried that and got header errors.. maybe I didn't completely remove something. I will try it again...

Thanks TS

Edit:
That was it.. I had the closing paren in the wrong side of the semi-colon. DUH!

Got it right, updated the script. All is well. Thanks again.