note 49516 modified in function.nl2br by thiago

From: Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:21:55 +0000
Subject: note 49516 modified in function.nl2br by thiago
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It's important to remember that this function does NOT replace newlines with <br> tags. Rather, it inserts a <br> tag before each newline, but it still preserves the newlines themselves! This caused problems for me regarding a function I was writing -- I forgot the newlines were still being preserved. If you don't want newlines, do: <?php $Result = str_replace( "\n", '<br />', $Text ); ?> --was-- It's important to remember that this function does NOT replace newlines with <br> tags. Rather, it inserts a <br> tag before each newline, but it still preserves the newlines themselves! This caused problems for me regarding a function I was writing -- I forgot the newlines were still being preserved. If you don't want newlines, do: $Result = str_replace( "\n", '<br />', $Text ); http://php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

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