Re: Htmlentities and Newlines?

On Saturday 28 September 2002 08:59 pm, John W. Holmes wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andre Dubuc [mailto:aajdubuc@webhart.net] > > Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 9:00 PM > > To: holmes072000@charter.net; 'Sascha Cunz'; php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Htmlentities and Newlines? > > > > On Saturday 28 September 2002 08:42 pm, John W. Holmes wrote: > > > > Short question: following your advice, what would the data look > > like > > > > in > > > > > > > the > > > > db if I typed in: > > > > > > > > Hi Sascha. > > > > Next line is doubled. > > > > > > > > Double. > > > > > > > > How would that appear iun the db? In mine, it looks exactly like I > > > > > > typed > > > > > > > it > > > > above (using 1 & 2 with magic_quotes=on). > > > > > > It depends on your viewer, I guess. It may appear as though it's all > > on > > > > one line, but the new lines are there, regardless. Htmlentities() > > > doesn't do anything to linebreaks... > > > > > > ---John Holmes... > > > > Hi John, > > > > Tried that > > > > Echo "<tr><td>" . nl2br(htmlentities($myrow['request'])) . > > and it > > appears > > > exactly as it is written (as part of the text request). Maybe if I try > > again > > Monday with a fresh mind, I might discover what I'm doing wrong. > > ?? Umm..that's what should happen. It's not exact, mind you, it just > looks the same in the browser. Any < you had was converted to &lt;, but > you'd have to look at the source. A newline should now have a <br /> > along with it... Is that not happening? > > ---John Holmes... Nope. In the db I see it as it's displayed on-screen without any <br> etc. Strangely, before I attempted to use htmlentities, in the db, I'd see text like: This line<br>is broken in two.<br><br>Before this line is a double space. Now I see: This line is broken in two. Before this line is a double space. I just KNOW I'm messing up here -- but where??? Andre