Re: note 9586 added to nl2br

Ehem, there *is* a way to reverse htmlspecialchars(), look at the manual entry for get_html_translation_table(). Also a simple str_replace()/ereg_replace()/preg_replace() would do the "<br>" to "\n" conversion (the info above will be added to your note) --- php@fendforyourself.com wrote: > Someone asked why there was no br2nl(). I think it's > probably in most cases you want to take your data > and display it in HTML, so it is probably already > stored with the \n. Storing it with the <br>'s > instead would just take up extra space and there's > no point in doing that when you can always convert > it on display. > > I'm assuming this is the same reason there is no > built in reverse to htmlspecialchars(). > > http://www.php.net/manual/function.nl2br.php > > > -- > PHP Notes Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > php-notes-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: > php-notes-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > ===== --- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/