Online editing HTML

Hi!

This time I have a basic question. I am using PHP + mySQL for creating dynamic webpages.

Now I want to write a page, where a user can enter simply text. This text (news, docs, etc...) is then stored in the database.

On the homepage there is automatically a link created that displays a webpage containing this text. Sounds simply, so far, infact it is almost the same like the Inputbox on this newsgroup.

My problem is that with the PHP-command "echo ($message)" all linebreaks are ignored. So the whole text is only one block. It is possible to enter the html-codes (<br>, etc.), they are interpreted, but my users don't know HTML.

Have you any advice for me? Thank you very much in advance.

Werner

I thnk you need to change your settings in the Mysql table to 'text' instead of varchar, if tha tis what you have.