i am working on a thing for users to enter data into a form, this form is then stored in a database. the only problem is that when the user wants a newline, the code just jumbles together anyhow.

how can put in newlines?

thanks

Can you please be a bit more specific? It jumbles up where? When you are displaying it?

say this forum for example, when i hit enter, it goes to a new line. but when i do this and store it to mysql then redisplay it:
this
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hello all,

how are you?
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turns into this
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hello all,how are you?
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i want a newline when the user hits enter

You need nl2br() (http://php.net/nl2br). The browser doesn't understand newlines -- only HTML.

And if you do use nl2br(), make sure you don't trim() before you use that because, by default, trim() removes \r and \n which are the new-line characters for different OS's

thanks, works like a charm, i didnt know how to turn php newline into html <br>, and now i do thanks!