Preserved Topic: auto inserting P tags in PHP

I have a form that lets me insert data into a MySQL table. However, I have one field that is an article body. I toss all the text into the form field, with carriage returns for the paragraphs. When it gets enterered into the database, and, subsequently displayed in HTML, I don't have any spaces between the paragraphs (no big surprise). Is there a way (in PHP) to automatically change carriage returns to <p> tags or something similar?

Obviously, I could just manually put the <p> tags in the text when I submit it to the database, but I want to avoid this, since some people who will use this won't be HTML literate.

Would Substr_replace() be a good candidate for this?

Thanks!



[This message has been edited by Pugzly (edited 07-18-2001).]

nl2br() is your friend.

Yes it is!

Thanks!