I am having trouble using nl2br with htmlentities

[Ajm113]

Ok, I want to disable any html tags, but the problem is when I do add in the nl2br function with a htmlentities it displays the tags for the <br>! I even keep seeing rn every time I enter a return in that area from the textarea html command. So how do I have nl2br going and htmlentities going at the same time, but not having to disabling each other?

[pbmods]

Heya, Ajm.

Make sure you call the two functions in reverse order:

nl2br(htmlenitites($str));
 

instead of:

htmlenities(nl2br($str));
 

In terms of seeing 'rn' where your newlines go, make sure you use double quotes (e.g., "\r\n" instead of '\r\n'). PHP does not parse most control characters in single-quoted strings.

[Ajm113]

Ok here is my code from what you posted does not work it is now going back to what I was avoiding:

[PHP]$message = nl2br(htmlentities(stripslashes(mysql_escape_strin g($_POST['message']))));[/PHP]

Here is what it is echoing out.
Line1rnLine2rn