note 9400 added to Chop

If you have many NEWLINES in a string, you can use explode->implode. Example: ... <form action... <textarea name=text cols=70 rows=10></textarea>...</form> echo $text; # makes "line1\nline2\nline3\n..." $text=explode("\n",$text); $text=implode(" ",$text); # or $text=implode("<br>",$text); echo $text; # makes "line1 line2 ..." or "line1<br>line2<br>..." It is important when you write it and after that read it in a file. Like: $ow = fopen("file.txt", "w"); fputs($text, $ow); fclose($ow); $or = fopen("file.txt", "r"); $szov = fgets($or, 4096); fclose($or); echo $szov; # makes "line1" if you don't change "\n" to " " or "<br>" (Sorry for my bad english.) http://www.php.net/manual/hu/function.chop.php