Getting multiline profile fields to display as entered?

[ILTK]

I'm writing a standard signature for my forums using profile fields. Is there anyway to get the linebreaks that a user enters to display when it is used?

Right now everything is displayed as one single line even if the user enters linebreaks in the textarea which is confusing. I could use 3 singleline texboxes and display that but that's kinda clunky.

I'm using $post[fieldX] to display the profile field in postbit, in there it's output without linebreaks. However if I go to my profile page/about me the linebreaks are displayed.

[Jake Bunce]

That requires some custom PHP code. You will probably need to use PHP's nl2br() function. If you have some coding ability then you can post on www.vbulletin.org for help with this.

[ILTK]

ok thanks I can do that, just wondering if there was another way I overlooked.

Hmm, thinking about it a little more it opens up for abuse. I would need to check if someone entered 50 linebreaks until the char limit was reached messing up the forum or write a regex to check for it. Probably more trouble that its worth. This is why we can't have nice things