How to post a sentence of an input of a textarea into a database using php?

Okay so we have a textarea


%26lt;form%26gt;


%26lt;textarea%26gt;%26lt;/textarea%26gt;


%26lt;/form%26gt;


In this form users will submit a bounch of sentences like:





Tim has 10 apples


Tim has 24 bananas


Tim has 19 grapes





I want to ignore the first sentence and add the second and third sentence into a databse...Help!

How to post a sentence of an input of a textarea into a database using php?
Give the form a submit button.


Give the textarea a name (like %26lt;textarea name="userinput"%26gt;%26lt;/textarea%26gt;)


Post the form with the submit button


Pull the post variable:


$textarea = $_POST['userinput'];





It's going to be difficult to strip the first line though, as users may not always use a period to finish a sentence. In any case, check out http://www.php.net and do a function search for str() to learn about the string functions.
Reply:Trimming the first sentence is a problem as there's no consistent way to demark the end of the first sentenence try using two fields, a text box for the first sentence and the textarea for the rest. Linebreaks are notriously difficult to capture via textareas..