Help with preg_replace and regexp

[makaiguy]

Originally Posted by harmor19

Below that line add

PHP Code:

$comment = stripslashes($comment); 


Works wonderfully, thanks! And much to my surprise it even leaves slashes originally entered as part of the text intact.

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

Why don't you just use the php function nl2br();

nl2br(string string) //Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string

Thanks for this. It's certainly easier for me to understand the coding without having to deal with the regex.

But still getting the \' , so still have to use stripslashes().

Any idea which of the two approaches is less server intensive?