Show new lines and spaces?

I am coding a guestbook and I want new lines and sp开发者_运维知识库aces to be shown when I show the posts?

when I post a thread now everything is shown on one line.

help!

Use nl2br(). Basically it's prepending every newline character with <br />.

Use this function:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

nl2br() will convert new lines into <br/> tags, so you will get new lines.