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# nl2br

(PHP 3 <= 3.0.18, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)

nl2br -- Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string

## Description

``string nl2br` (string string)`

Returns `string` with '<br />' inserted before all newlines.

> Note: Starting with PHP 4.0.5, nl2br() is now XHTML compliant. All versions before 4.0.5 will return `string` with '<br>' inserted before newlines instead of '<br />'.

See also htmlspecialchars(), htmlentities() and wordwrap().

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