#44276 [Opn->Fbk]: nl2br function doesn't work as described

ID: 44276 Updated by: philip@php.net Reported By: lokitek at gmail dot com -Status: Open +Status: Feedback Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: el5 PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: My non-phpinfo output looks like this: <br /> string(20) "foo isn't<br /> bar" Two notes: a) Yours lacks the first <br /> b) Our strings are both length 20, yours should say 18 What do you think of this? Almost as if there is something changing your code after PHP... Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-02-28 15:15:14] lokitek at gmail dot com Philip, Here is the output as requested: string(20) "foo isn't<br> bar" System Linux localhost 2.6.18-53.el5 #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 16:34:02 EDT 2007 i686 Build Date Sep 12 2007 11:11:33 Configure Command './configure' '--build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--cache-file=../config.cache' '--with-libdir=lib' '--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d' '--disable-debug' '--with-pic' '--disable-rpath' '--without-pear' '--with-bz2' '--with-curl' '--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--without-gdbm' '--with-gettext' '--with-gmp' '--with-iconv' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-openssl' '--with-png' '--with-pspell' '--with-expat-dir=/usr' '--with-pcre-regex=/usr' '--with-zlib' '--with-layout=GNU' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-trans-sid' '--enable-yp' '--enable-wddx' '--with-kerberos' '--enable-ucd-snmp-hack' '--with-unixODBC=shared,/usr' '--enable-memory-limit' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-dbx' '--enable-dio' '--with-mime-magic=/etc/httpd/conf/magic' '--without-sqlite' '--with-libxml-dir=/usr' '--with-xml' '--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--without-mysql' '--without-gd' '--without-odbc' '--disable-dom' '--disable-dba' '--without-unixODBC' '--disable-pdo' '--disable-xmlreader' '--disable-xmlwriter' Server API Apache 2.0 Handler Virtual Directory Support disabled Configuration File (php.ini) Path /etc/php.ini Scan this dir for additional .ini files /etc/php.d additional .ini files parsed /etc/php.d/gd.ini, /etc/php.d/ldap.ini, /etc/php.d/mysql.ini, /etc/php.d/mysqli.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo_mysql.ini, /etc/php.d/pdo_sqlite.ini PHP API 20041225 PHP Extension 20050922 Zend Extension 220051025 Debug Build no Thread Safety disabled Zend Memory Manager enabled IPv6 Support enabled Registered PHP Streams php, file, http, ftp, compress.bzip2, compress.zlib, https, ftps Registered Stream Socket Transports tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, sslv3, sslv2, tls Registered Stream Filters string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, convert.iconv.*, bzip2.*, zlib.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-02-28 00:37:58] philip@php.net Please run this code and print its output here: <?php phpinfo(INFO_GENERAL); echo "\n\n<br />\n\n"; var_dump( nl2br("foo isn't\n bar") ); ?> If something sensitive appears in there, remove it first. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-02-28 00:10:42] lokitek at gmail dot com Description: ------------ Using the example supplied of: echo nl2br("foo isn't\n bar"); My php 5.1.6 is actually echoing out: foo isn't<br> bar This is NOT xhtml compliant since it's suppose to be <br /> Anyone experienced this? extra info: PHP 5.1.6 (cli) Reproduce code: --------------- echo nl2br("foo isn't\n bar"); Expected result: ---------------- foo isn't<br /> bar Actual result: -------------- foo isn't<br> bar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=44276&edit=1