need help with a small forum "bug"

[trevor]

so my site is comming along great. thanks to everyone who helped me so far. I should have it up by the end of the week.

Anyways, I have the forum all coded and working great except when you put a line break <enter> in your post, it doesn't show up. Now if you type <br>, it does, but I know there has to be a better way.

ideas?

thanks,

Trevor

[sde]

PHP Code:

<?
$post="Here is the post
which consists of several
line breaks.  Normally html won't show these breaks,
but php has a function especially made for this
that replaces the new line character with
a <br>";

$post=nl2br($post);

echo $post;
?>

[trevor]

it works,

thanks man

[sde]

sure np =)

[Admin]

you should disallow HTML in your forum.

people might post stuff like this:

<table width='999999999' border='99999999' height='99999999999'>
<tr>
<td> foooo!!!!!!

[sde]

PHP Code:

<?
$post=htmlentities($post);

?>