Re: Htmlentities and Newlines?

$Something = str_replace("\n", "<br>", $Something); This is old but still works well. "Andre Dubuc" <aajdubuc@webhart.net> wrote in message news:200209281800.g8SI0bN08316@filtermail.webhart.net... > Perhaps I don't understand the use of 'htmlentities' too well, but I would > like newlines to be retained/inserted into a db, and then if displayed, to > produce a new line from a textarea. However, I want the possibility of > dangerous html excluded (hence the use of 'htmlentities'). > > Is there some way of excluding '\n \r ' and other newline indicators from > 'htmlentities()'? Perhaps a combination of preg_match and something else? I'm > a bit brained-fried struggling with other errant parts of this code since 6 > am. > > Any ideas how I could proceed? > > > > The code far: > > > <?php > . . . > /* Verification script. Adds sponsor's name, city, prov, country and current > date at end of 'request' string */ > . . . > > $request = $_POST['request']; > $request = ucfirst($request); > $html = htmlentities($request); > ^^^ > /* $html defuses all newlines . . . sigh */ > > > $title = $_POST['title']; > $title = ucfirst($title); > $title = htmlentities($title); > > > $date = date('Y-m-d'); > $preview = > > "{$_SESSION['title']}<br><br><br>$html<br><br><br>{$_SESSION['sfname']} > {$_SESSION['ssname']}<br>{$_SESSION['scity']}, > {$_SESSION['rprov']} > {$_SESSION['scountry']}<br>$date";; > > > print "<h2>Preview of Request from > > {$_SESSION['sfname']}{$_SESSION['ssname']}</h2><br><br>"; > . . . > ?> > > Any ideas or advice will be most gratefully accepted. > Tia, > Andre