PHP/Utility Function/nl2br

convert the newlines to

 
<?php
   $recipe = "3 
   1
   8
   3";
   // convert the newlines to <br />"s.
   echo nl2br($recipe);
?>

nl2br() function converts all newline (\n) characters to their HTML equivalent
.

 
Its syntax is: string nl2br (string string)
<?
    $text_recipe = "
    A
    B
    V";
    $html_recipe = nl2br ($text_recipe);
    print $html_recipe;
?>

string nl2br ( string string ): changes any new line characters found in the data string into
.

 
<?php 
$astring = "Hello\nWorld\n\nHow are you?"; 
echo nl2br ($astring); 
?>

string nl2br ( string str ) inserts a HTML line break (
) before all new line characters

 
<?
    $mystr = "This is a test\nYes it is.";
    $brstr = nl2br($mystr);
?>

Wrapping Text with wordwrap() and nl2br()

 
<?php
    $string = "one line\n";
    $string .= "another line\n";
    $string .= "a third for luck\n";
    print nl2br( $string );
?>