Re: str_replace() problems actually *_replace() problems to be more accurate

take a look at the comments for the nl2br() functions, many nice examples for problems simular to this: http://no2.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:49:14 +0200, Thomas Bolioli wrote (in message <20030616184916.42246.qmail@pb1.pair.com>): > I am a perl/java/c++ programmer who is doing something in php and have > run accross something I am stumped with. I am trying to replace carriage > returns with <br> or <p> tags (p's in groups of two and br's for any > unmatched cr's). I have tried all of the *_replace() functions including > string_*, ereg_* and preg_*. None have worked the way they seem to > should. Note, I am a perl programmer and preg_replace() did not work > while a test perl script did. I have tried multiple forms of patterns > from "\r\n" to "\n" to "\r" to "/\r?\n/ei" (in the > *reg_* functions). I > even took code verbatim from examples in the docs to no avail. I have > included the entire block of code (and mysql_dump output) since there is > something I have apparently not done right and it may not be in the > pattern matches. > Thanks in advance, > Tom > > > *The offending code:* > > }elseif($_REQUEST['add']){ > $desc = $_REQUEST['description']; > str_replace("\r\n\r\n", "<p>", $desc); > str_replace("\r\n", "<br>", $desc); > $result = mysql_query('INSERT INTO hr_listings > (title,description,location,end_date,posting_date) > > VALUES("'.$_REQUEST['title'].'","'.$desc.'","'.$_REQUEST['location'].'","'.$_ > REQUEST['end_date'].'", > NOW())',$db) > or trigger_error("MySQL error nr ".mysql_errno().": ".mysql_error()); > > > *Output of mysql_dump showing the \r\n's going in* > INSERT INTO hr_listings VALUES > (15,'test',5,'2003-06-16','2003-09-11',NULL,'This > is one line\r\nThis is the next\r\n\r\nThis is another > paragraph\r\n\r\n'); > INSERT INTO hr_listings VALUES > (16,'test2',1,'2003-06-16','2004-09-11',NULL,'Thi > s is one line\r\nThis is the next\r\n\r\nThis is another > paragraph\r\n\r\n'); > >