Convert string value into html format in php

Question

Any one know how to convert string value into html format in php? For Example:

$string = "Hello World!!
           How are you?"

If I echo $string, it will display like this:

Hello World!!How are you?

Instead of:

Hello World!!
How are you?

Any way php can conver the $string into html format? If I input:

$string = "Hello World!!
           How are you?"

Php will convert it to become:

$string = "Hello World!!<br>How are you?"

Gumbo · Accepted Answer · 2009-04-15 12:15:58Z

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You’re looking for the nl2br function that adds an HTML line break tag   to every physical line break sequence (\n, \r or \r\n):

\n    →  <br />\n
\r    →  <br />\r
\r\n  →  <br />\r\n

answered Apr 15, 2009 at 7:01

Gumbo

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Keep in mind this will only convert the carriage returns (enter characters) into tags.

@Mladen Mihajlovic: No it doesn’t. It adds a HTML line break to every physical line break sequence: \r\n, \n and \r →  \r\n,  \n and  \r

sas · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26 19:56:53Z

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$string = "Hello World!!
       How are you?";
echo nl2br($string);

answered Apr 26, 2011 at 19:56

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