#44795 [Opn->Bgs]: nl2br should have option for generating HTML instead of XHTML

ID: 44795 Updated by: felipe@php.net Reported By: mmiikkee13 at gmail dot com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.2.5 New Comment: Please do not submit the same bug more than once. An existing bug report already describes this very problem. Even if you feel that your issue is somewhat different, the resolution is likely to be the same. Thank you for your interest in PHP. Duplicated. Bug #34381 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-04-22 01:09:29] mmiikkee13 at gmail dot com Description: ------------ nl2br should include an optional argument to make it generate HTML instead of XHTML. Not every site uses XHTML, and PHP doesn't usually seem like an XHTML-specific language to me - heck, it can even echo out C code if you were that crazy. (No offense to anyone who's actually tried that.) XHTML could still be the default, but the function should be changed to something like nl2br($text, $xhtml=FALSE). While <br /> may only generate a warning in the W3C validator, it recommends only using it in XHTML documents, not HTML. Besides that, people view pages with browsers, not hyperactive validators. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=44795&edit=1