Replacing a text with other.

hi,

i was making a script and i wanted to insert some text to mysql database and use "\n" for line breaks.
means that i want a coding to turn "\n" into <br /> tag
can anyone help?

Thanks.

 

After you have retreived the content from the database, you can use the nl2br function which will
do it for you.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

 

ok it gave a break but it prints \n which i don't want .
never mind mind i will try something else.

 

One of the guys that commented on that php.net page created a function to do what you want.

function mynl2br($text) { 
   return strtr($text, array("\r\n" => '<br />', "\r" => '<br />', "\n" => '<br />')); 
} 

PHP:

 

ok i didn't read the full page.

thanks i will try this as well.

 

str_replace("<br />", "\n", "here I am<br /> this is meeee<br />");

PHP:

 

i tried thic coding before but it didn't work.

 

it works you just need to add more replacing patterns.

$arr = array("<br>","<BR>","<br/>","<br />", "<BR/>");
str_replace($arr, "\n", "here I am<br> this is meeee<br>");

PHP:

it works fine with me..

 

i think this code solve your problems
str_replace("<br />", "\n", "here I am<br /> this is meeee<br />");

 

xenon i need to trun \n to <br /> not <br /> to \n.
well i think if itell the coding help will be easier.

str_replace('\n','<br />',$r2[news]);
echo "<hr /><b>".$r2[title]."</b><br /><br />".$r2[news]."<br /><br /><b>By Admin</b> on <b>
".$r2[date]."</b><hr />";

PHP:

i will now try to echo news within quotes

 

Use double quotes;

$str = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), "<br />", $str);

PHP:

 

Nice solution danx10.

 

if you want to convert \n to <br>
just use nl2br("\n\n\n\n");

 

Does'nt work in all cases, furthermore I beleive only supports the \n newline character? and not the other OS based chars?