Re: Differentiate Line breaks and Paragraphs

On 2 Nov 2012, at 19:32, Simon Dániel <simondani91@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a way to make difference between line breaks and paragraphs, when > I save a text to a database from a user input? The new line characters (\n, > \r) are not too consequent to determine when did the user only one new line > or more new lines. (Some clients make only \n or \r, some others make \n\r > or \r\n, etc.) > > What I would like to do is, to format the given text into paragraphs (with > <p> tag), not just insert a batch of break line (<br />) tags. > Of course, I want to retain <br /> tags as well, in case of the user wrote > only one new line character. Something like this should work… <?php // Let's say you have $str as the text, and // assuming that all line breaks are \r\n and // not just \n. If not I recommend replacing // \r\n with \n first and removing all \r's // from the code below. $new_str = nl2br('<p>'.str_replace($str, '\r\n\r\n', '</p><p>').'</p>'); ?> Untested but that should do what you're looking for. -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/