nl2br

All "\n" line breaks will be converted to html <br /> tags in the given variable. This is equivalent to the PHP\'s nl2br() function.

Basic usage

{$myVar|nl2br}

Examples

<?php

$smarty->assign('articleTitle',
                "Sun or rain expected\ntoday, dark tonight"
                );

Where the template is:

{$articleTitle|nl2br}

Will output:

Sun or rain expected<br />today, dark tonight

See also word_wrap, count_paragraphs and count_sentences.