Re: php3-php4 mysql problem with nl2br coding

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:04:00 -0600 Terry Romine Terry Romine <eatrom@blazing-trails.com> wrote: > I seem to have run into a strange bug where when I enter text > through a > form, and use the nl2br call in PHP, instead of getting "<BR>" I > get > "<BR />" and then my parsing fails on the display side (where I > use > ereg_replace("<br>","", $string) to clean up the breaks. > I believe that is not a "bug", but instead is the HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 spec which says that all tags, including empty elements, must be closed. Perhaps you might change your "ereg_replace()" to look for either/both types of tags? -- Raquel ============================================================ Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. --Calvin Coolidge