Re: need to remove newline characters from form input

I think, after 4 hours of searching functions and exxperimentation I've found a simple yet elegant solution. $message = ereg_replace( "\n", " ", $message); It seems to replace all new line instances with a blank space. Wooohooo! "Five" <primeooze@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:20040226195911.84897.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I'm writing a simple threaded message board using only php. > > I have it worked out except for having to make sure the user input from a <TEXTAREA> > doesn't have new line characters. I need to add > those myself. Is there an easy way, short of checking each character in a loop, to rid input of > new line characters. > > Also, ( this might come in handy lol ) what new line character is created when the user presses > the Enter key when filling a form > field? If they aren't " \n" I'm not sure what Im looking for. > > much advance thanks, > Dale