maintaining paragraphs in textareas

hi all,

hopefully not too complicated but I’m not so strong with php and was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of how to achieve the following:

I’ve got a job site I built which allows people to post a full job description in a textarea which is submitted to a mysql db along with other fields such as location/job title etc.

In the job description I’d like users to be able to paste in all the text and have the field wrap each paragraph in a <p> tag in the page once it’s saved.

At the moment, as there’s no specific processing it just lists all the text in a solid block with no formatting.

I’ve tried tinyeditor which works alright but for my needs, I don’t want users to be able to add all the other formatting like bold, italic etc and change colours and also the source it spits out is horrific.

Is there a way I can post in a couple of paragraphs of text into my text field and have it render on the page in <p> tags?

Many thanks,

James.

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