Something that has always irked me is having to take the value of a textarea and convert the text into HTML paragraphs (especially when using a WYSIWYG is not an option). Here's a quick PHP snippet to take care of that, whether the user uses one or two line breaks for new paragraphs.
"Remember the days before spam?" I barely can, but this slogan for Akismet might really hit home for some. Spam has become quite a nuisance for just about everybody who uses the Internet, not to mention the added trouble for those who run websites.
All work is original and copyright 2012 by Ash White, with the exception of a handful of free third-party libraries, including the Scriptaculous JavaScript framework, Lightbox image overlay, Google Font Directory, Google Code Prettify, and Eric Meyer's CSS Reset.