Hello all, Basically I have a form with a <textarea>. The user can enter up to 5,000 characters in this text area. If the user just types text like: This is a test. And saves it, there's no problem. However if the user types: This Is A Test And saves it, the insert bombs. I've tried using nl2br($text) and str_replace("\r","#CR",$text) to convert the carriage returns, but it still crashes. I'm using an informix database and the column is: my_text CHAR(5000) Any ideas why it crashes any time there is a carriage return in the text area? Thanks, Dan