Post text with Php code

[Scott Meyers]

I am not a php programmer. I just need to replace nl2br with <p> at the beginning of the paragraph and </p> and the end of the same paragraph. Here is the code I have and need to modify:

$text = nl2br($text);
$this->setText($text);
return $this;

Currently the text is posted like this:
BLAH BLAH<br />

I need it this way:
<p>BLAH BLAH</p>

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you

[paul]

$text = nl2br($text);
$text = '

'.str_replace(array('

','

','

',''),array('','','

','

'),$text).'

';
$this->setText($text);
return $this;