replacing carriage returns with <br>

how can i do this ?

eg someone types some data into a text area

eg

line1
line2
line3

i need to replace the carriage returns with a <b>

i know the syntax of the str replace command, just dont know the right code
for the
carriage return.

cheers

luna

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:42:10 +0100 in
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"luna" <luna@moonbase.com> wrote:

> how can i do this ?
>
> eg someone types some data into a text area
>
> eg
>
> line1
> line2
> line3
>
> i need to replace the carriage returns with a <b>
>
> i know the syntax of the str replace command, just dont know the right
> code for the
> carriage return.
>
> cheers
>
> luna
>
>


2 options, if you're using HTML (rather than XHTML), you can use the
simple 'nl2br()' built-in function:


$text = nl2br($text);


If you're using XHTML.. AFAIK, there is no built-in wrapper for this, so
you could use a function that I wrote a while back:


function nl2xbr($data) {
return (!empty($data)) ? str_replace("\n", "<br />\n", $data) : '';
}


HTH =)



Regards,

Ian

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> 2 options, if you're using HTML (rather than XHTML), you can use the
> simple 'nl2br()' built-in function:
>
>
> $text = nl2br($text);
>
>
> If you're using XHTML.. AFAIK, there is no built-in wrapper for this, so
> you could use a function that I wrote a while back:
>
>
> function nl2xbr($data) {
> return (!empty($data)) ? str_replace("\n", "<br />\n", $data) : '';
> }
>
>
> HTH =)
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian
>
thanks for the quick reply - appreciated,
i used $data = str_replace("\n", "<br />", $data) : ''; in the end as i was
passing the
data to an odbc access database - the entry works well eg line1<br>line2<br>
works a treat!

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:10:06 +0100 in
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"luna" <luna@moonbase.com> wrote:

> thanks for the quick reply - appreciated,


No probs =)


> i used $data = str_replace("\n", "<br />", $data) : ''; in the end
> as i was passing the
> data to an odbc access database - the entry works well eg
> line1<br>line2<br> works a treat!


Ahh makes sense. I normally include the \n after the <br /> in the
function so that on display in an HTML "view source" page, it looks
half-readable and "formatted" too.. hence it was added "by default" to
my function.

Glad all works =)



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Ian

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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:41:27 GMT, "Ian.H [dS]" <ian@WINDOZEdigiserv.net> wrote:

>2 options, if you're using HTML (rather than XHTML), you can use the
>simple 'nl2br()' built-in function:
>
>
> $text = nl2br($text);
>
>
>If you're using XHTML.. AFAIK, there is no built-in wrapper for this, so
>you could use a function that I wrote a while back:

nl2br outputs XHTML compliant <br /> tags.

http://uk2.php.net/nl2br

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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:36:39 +0100 in
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Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote:

> >If you're using XHTML.. AFAIK, there is no built-in wrapper for
> >this, so you could use a function that I wrote a while back:
>
> nl2br outputs XHTML compliant <br /> tags.
>
> http://uk2.php.net/nl2br


Oops.. I should have read more clearly; has been a while since I looked
up this function.

Thanks for the clarification.. useful to know =)



Regards,

Ian

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