Re: Simple (??) control structure problem

Hi Christopher, Why not use nl2br() and trim() ? $string = trim($string); // Clear any unwanted white space (trailing and leading); $string = nl2br($string); // Add line breaks where necessary echo "$string"; // Voila James "Christopher Kaminski" <chronoszero@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:20010715193846.95863.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I'm trying to write a simple weblog script, but I've encountered a > perplexing problem. I'm sure I'm overlooking something simple. > > I'm trying to take <textarea> form input, parse it, and wrap it in <p> tags. > The problem is removing extra carriage returns. I'm sure there's a problem > with the "if ($sentence != ' ')", but I don't know what the right > conditional statement is. No matter what I put in there, it keeps > processing any extra blank lines and putting an extra pair of "<p></p>" tags > in. Granted, this doesn't effect the way the page is displayed. For > correctness sake, I'd rather not have them in there. > > Here's the simple page I threw together to illustrate the problem: > > <html> > <body> > > <?php > if ($submit) { > > $funk = explode("\n", $paragraph); > foreach ($funk as $key => $sentence) { > if ($sentence != ' ')) { > $funk[$key] = "<p>" . $sentence . > "</p>\n"; > echo $funk[$key]; > } > } > > } else { > ?> > <p><form method="post" action="<?php echo > $PHP_SELF?>"> > Text:<textarea name="paragraph" rows="10" cols="40"></textarea><br> > <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Mangle > This"> > </form></p> > <?php > } > ?> > > </body> > </html> > > Thanks in advance, > Chris > >