Capture newline from a textarea input

Question

I have a textarea form in my html. If the user hits enter between 2 sentences that data should be carried over to my PHP.

Currently if the user enters:

Apple
Google
MS

and my PHP code is:

$str = $_POST["field"];

echo $str;

I get

Apple Google MS 

as the output. I want output to be like this

Apple
Google
MS

what should I do?

Answer 1

Try nl2br() instead:

echo nl2br($str);