replace breaking lines in text or textarea input using php

Replace breaking lines (\n) in text or textarea input using php - How to
 

This script helps us to replace new lines (breaking lines - \n) from an text input  or textarea input with the Html character <br> used for break lines.

Suplimentar explanation:
When a user write a text into a text field or textarea field and pres the enter key resulting a breaking line.

example:


//===============

$com='This is posted content from a simple textarea or input text into a html form \n This is breaking line';

$com=eregi_replace(chr(13),"<br>",$com);

//===============



The output is:

This is posted content from a simple textarea or input text into a html form <br> This is breaking line

or

This is posted content from a simple textarea or input text into a html form 
This is breaking line