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on page1.php, I have a <textarea>. The user can put in anything there, even new line characters. I want to use the str_replace function to replace any occurences of new line characters with "<br>"
How can I do this? (I'm guessing that vbCrlf isn't the correct one)
I always do:
But I've seen other people throw in combinationes of "\r\n"Code:str_replace("\n", "<br>", $text);
Aha... \n. This seems so familiar :p
I understand the \n must be newline. What is \r though?
\r is a carriage return. There's also an nl2br() function:Quote:
Originally posted by mendhak
Aha... \n. This seems so familiar :p
I understand the \n must be newline. What is \r though?
Quote:
string nl2br(string string)
Returns string with '<br />' inserted before all newlines.
Thanks man.
Yeah I think you have to take into account that Linux, Mac and Windows all handle newlines differently, so just doing a str_replace won't always get it right (or at least that's my understanding of it).
that is correct.
\r = carrioage return and will work in windows
\n = newline and most of the time won't work in windows
\t = tab (I believe)
that is why most people use both.
Wont work in Windows? I've never had a problem using newlines in Windows...Quote:
Originally posted by phpman
\n = newline and most of the time won't work in windows
that is what I said.... most of the time it does, but that is why they add \r to it to make sure.
No you didn't...Quote:
Originally posted by phpman
that is what I said.... most of the time it does
Is what you said.Quote:
Originally posted by phpman
most of the time won't work in windows
actually it is for the headers where it messes up.
Actually, my sack is in the back, I thank you.Quote:
Originally posted by phpman
actually it is for the headers where it messes up.