Re: nl2br returns <BR />? normality or a bug?

<br /> is that XML style newline or something... Don't worry about it, it parsed the same as <br> Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maxim Maletsky" <subscriptions@phpbeginner.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 1:13 AM Subject: [PHP] nl2br returns <BR />? normality or a bug? > > I've never seen that nl2rb would return me <BR /> instead of the > traditional <BR>. But it did. > > Is that normal or it that a bug? > > > Here's some test code: > > <? > > $text = " > > Hello > > this is > the > silliest > > test > > I can > > > ever > > invent > > "; > > echo nl2br($text); > > echo "on machine: $SERVER_SOFTWARE"; > > ?> > > > returns me such HTML: > > ---------- > > <br /> > > <br /> > Hello > <br /> > > <br /> > this is > <br /> > the > <br /> > silliest > <br /> > > <br /> > test > <br /> > > <br /> > I can > <br /> > > <br /> > > <br /> > ever > <br /> > > <br /> > invent > <br /> > > <br /> > <p>on machine: [Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.22 (Mandrake > Linux/1.2mdk) mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6 PHP/4.0.6] > ---------- > > > > I've triple-checked for what ANSI characters I had there. They were > fine. And as you can read below, there were the same as when nl2br used > to return me <br>. > > The problem has never occurred to me on any of the previous machines > site was hosted on. It does on this one though, with even the same > version of PHP and the same data from DB. I've noticed this problem > because I had a RegEx after nl2br() that always worked till we migrated > on a new server, then my expression has obviously stopped to work > because of that extra space and slash nl2br kindly provided me with. > Temporarily fixed with another RegEx. But, I was wondering, is a known > bug or it's because of my machine? Other than that nothing has > changed... > > Enlighten me on this, please. Did I miss a bug report? > > > Sincerely, > > Maxim Maletsky > Founder, Chief Developer > > PHPBeginner.com (Where PHP Begins) > maxim@phpbeginner.com > www.phpbeginner.com > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >