note 24508 added to function.nl2br

I'm trying to use nl2br to change the \n to <br> in a textarea read from MySQL, like this: $str.=nl2br($row[text]); However it simply doesn't work. Why? The result is all the page except the text that should be added to $str! -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+24508 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+24508 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+24508