Re: Re: Convert plain text to HTML tagged text

just run them in order $test=str_replace(...); $test=str_replace(...); $test=str_replace(...); $test=str_replace(...); bastien

From: GH <GaryHotko@gmail.com> Reply-To: GH <GaryHotko@gmail.com> To: Felipe Alcacibar <falcacibar@fulltimehosting.com> CC: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Convert plain text to HTML tagged text Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 23:33:46 -0400 I have a question along this line... is it possible to have PHP do more than one str_replace at the same time? or would I need to pass through each time seperately? I.e I wasn to check for Line returns and change it to <p>, i want to replace "[c]" with a special formating tag.... etc...? Thanks? On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:55:31 -0400, Felipe Alcacibar <falcacibar@fulltimehosting.com> wrote: if the returnns are "\n" you only need nl2br("this \n test \n")... or preg_replace("/((\r|\n)|(\r\n|\n\r))/", "<br />", "this \r\n test \r\n")... good luck... <veditio@comcast.net> escribió en el mensaje news:092820041715.29949.41599C2B000C6CAD000074FD22007511509B020103040A0B@com cast.net...

To the list: I've googled and searched the manual, but I'm still looking for a

simple solution to a simple problem.

I have a MySQL database of text stories in longtext MySQL fields.

These stories have simple returns (\r) in them and no other formatting. I need to use these stories both for web and print production, so I need to be able to get the text out of MySQL via PHP and have those returns change to <P> tags. But I also need to keep those extra <P> tags out of the database file so the text can be exported and poured into a layout program.

HTMLspecialchars and HTMLentities don't seem like the right solution,

but maybe I'm missing something. Do I have to use regular expressions in PHP as the text is pulled from the database?

Thanks in advance for your help. --veditio

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