> Perhaps I don't understand the use of 'htmlentities' too well, but I
would
> like newlines to be retained/inserted into a db, and then if
displayed, to
> produce a new line from a textarea. However, I want the possibility of
> dangerous html excluded (hence the use of 'htmlentities').
> 
> Is there some way of excluding '\n \r ' and other newline indicators
from
> 'htmlentities()'? Perhaps a combination of preg_match and something
else?
> I'm
> a bit brained-fried struggling with other errant parts of this code
since
> 6
> am.
> Any ideas how I could proceed?

What's wrong with

echo nl2br(htmlentities($text));

??

---John Holmes...



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