Firstly, I'd like to say I have been reading the forums and I know there's a lot posted on this subject. However to the best of my knowledge there isn't a direct answer to my problem.

Basically I have a 'Send Private Message' page. The user enters a name, subject and message, It tries to send (using a form php on that page) but if it fails, all the data is put back into the fields.

Here is my code:

<?
include "header.php";
$to1 = $_GET['to'];
$subject1 = $_GET['subject'];

if(isset($_POST['send'])){
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$to = $_POST['team'];

$cuser = mysql_query("SELECT * from `". $LID ."_teams` where `name` = '$to' and `aval` = '0'");
if(mysql_num_rows($cuser) > 0){
$team = mysql_fetch_array($cuser);
mysql_query("INSERT into `". $LID ."_mail` (`subject`, `message`, `to`, `from`) VALUES('$subject', '$message', 

'$team[id]', '$user[team]')");
echo 'Message Sent!';
}else{
echo 'Team does not exist.';
$to1 = $to;
$subject1 = $subject;
$message1 = $message; // THIS IS WHERE I WAS TRYING TO STRIP THE \R\N
}}

echo '<table width="50%" cellspacing="0"><tr>
<td width="25%"><form method="POST">To:</td>
<td width="75%"><input type="text" name="team" value="'. $to1 .'"></td>
</tr><tr>
<td>Subject:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="subject" value="'. $subject1 .'"></td>
</tr><tr>
<td>Message:</td>
<td><textarea name="message" style="width:100%" rows="6">'. $message1 .'</textarea></td>
</tr><tr>
<td colspan="2"><center><input type="submit" value="Send" name="send"></td>
</tr></table>';

include "footer.php";
?>

I've tried using str_replace and nl2br but neither seemed to work unfortunately

Thank you in advance,
Stephen

If you are wanting to strip newlines, then you can use the following logic:
$value = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\r", "\n", "\t"), ' ', $value);

If not, textarea will automatically display newlines, just filter your output value using htmlentities()

Didn't work, I'm trying to change the \r\n into an actual new line. I don't understand why it won't work. I tried the methods you said before then retried them just now.

Basically the $message string is coming from $_POST['message'];
And displaying pretty much straight away, just I can't seem to format it!

Thanks for the reply =]

No solution?