RE: [PHP] Problems with user's newlines
| From: | J. Geusebroek | Date: | Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:41:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Problems with user's newlines | ||
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> I am using Php3, JavaScript, and mysql on my site. I have a textbox
>that users can fill in; this is stored in a database. Later, this
>information will be redisplayed in a web page. The way the webpage is
>generated is by using php to generate javascript which generates html.
>It works fine unless the user puts in a newline. Then javascript
>complains that the lines are not terminated. But I have been trying to
>do ereg_replace on the strings:
>$string = ereg_replace("\n","<BR>",$string);
>I'm getting the <BR>'s, but still the newlines seem to be there. I
>tried matching on "\\\n" and got the same result. Does anyone have any
>ideas why this match is not working?
I don't know why this should not work; but you could try the nl2br function.
It does what you want.
Good Luck,
Jeroen