Quick and Easy Product Description Line Break Solution

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Here is what I did in regards to the line break issue. 

The issue that I had was in regards to how product_info.php displayed the description of the item. I would not display any of the line breaks. The suggestions that I have received were install the WYSIWYG contribution but I have made to many mods to the store so that will not work and its to time consuming to install. 

Here is the solution that I came up with. 

I created a function that converts \n to a <BR> tag. 

<?php 
function nl2p($text) { 
$text = ereg_replace("\n", "<br>", $text); 
return $text; 

} 

?> 


and inserted that at about line 115 just above this call 

($product_info_values['products_description' 

I then added nlp2 just before it so the desc now looks like this 

<?php echo nl2p ($product_info_values['products_description']); ?> 


Works like a charm and I thought that I'd pass it along. 

--Gary