Re: Problems with user's newlines
| From: | Matthew Kendall | Date: | Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:10:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Problems with user's newlines | ||
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"kris" <kris@bellatlantic.net> wrote...
> 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.
Perhaps the newlines are \r\n rather than just \n. The nl2br() function is
the easiest way to take care of all variations.