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# connect mysql for tests sake
echo nl2br("new\nline"); # works fine
/*
| prints
| new<br />line
*/
echo nl2br(mysql_real_escape_string("new\nline"); # doesn't work
/*
| prints
| new\nline
*/
echo mysql_real_escape_string(nl2br("new\nline"); # works also, to a degree.
/*
| prints
| new
| \nline
*/