Doctrine: textarea line breaks & nl2br

Question

I'm pulling my hair out with something that should be very simple: getting line breaks to show up properly in text that's returned from the database with Doctrine 1.2

I'm saving a message:

    $body = [text from a form textarea];

    $m = new Message();
    $m->setSubject($subject);
    $m->setBody($body);
    $m->save();

Querying the message:

$q = Doctrine_Query::create()
    ->from('Message m')
    ->where('m.message_id = ?', $id)
    ->limit(1);
$this->message = $q->execute(array(), Doctrine_Core::HYDRATE_ARRAY);

In my template:

echo $message[0]['body'] ... outputs the text without line breaks
echo nl2br($message[0]['body']) ... no difference

... and I've tried every combination I could think of.

Is Doctrine doing something to line breaks that's affecting this, or is there something that I'm just missing?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Solved.

The form sends the data via Ajax rather than submit. Using ajax "get" turns the textarea data into single line. Changing this to ajax "post" fixes the problem.