nl2br

Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string (PHP 3, PHP 4 )
string nl2br ( string string )

Returns string with '<br />' inserted before all newlines.

Note:

Starting with PHP 4.0.5, nl2br() is now XHTML compliant. All versions before 4.0.5 will return string with '<br>' inserted before newlines instead of '<br />'.

Example 926. using nl2br()

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<?php
echo nl2br("foo isn't\n bar");
?>

this will output :

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foo isn't<br />
bar

See also htmlspecialchars(), htmlentities(), wordwrap(), and str_replace().

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