Something like the function nl2br()

Anon

Hi everybody,
For my guestbook I try to create a limited nl2br() function.
because I don\'t want joking visitors who add a 200 enters in a message I want to limit this.

I\'ve tried something like this with str_replace & erge_replace:

$message = ereg_replace (\"\n\", \" \", $message);
$message = ereg_replace (\"\n\n\n%\", \"\", $message);

But this doesn\'t work. What I exactly try to do?
- 1 enter result in 1 
- 2 enters result in 1 
- 3 or more enters result in 1

Please give some help.

Anon

above message is of course minus all escape slashes 🙁

Anon

But this doesn't work. What I exactly try to do?
   - 1 enter result in 1 
   - 2 enters result in 1 
   - 3 or more enters result in 1

I take it this is the statement of what you want it to do, not what the code does that "doesn't work"?

For starters, let's factor out the common parts and reduce it to a minimal statement:

- 2 or more enters results in 1 
   - 1 enter results in 1

Then it's just a matter of executing them in sequence:

$message = ereg_replace ('\n\n+', ' ', $message);
   $message = nl2br($message);

Note if you take care of the paragraph mark first, you can use nl2br() for the rest.

                    $message = ereg_replace (\"\\n\\n\\n%\", \"<p>\", $message);

Anon

Dear Kirk,

I tried to use your solution, but it didn't work (maybe I did something wrong).
But someone give me the following regex. This seems to work! Thanks for your time spending on my problem.

$message = ereg_replace("[\n\r]{3,}", "", $message);
$message = nl2br($message);

Anon

I tried to use your solution, but it didn't work

It's extremely easy to get tripped up by the exact number of backslashes needed to properly escape something. Maybe it needed to be \\n or something?

But someone give me the following regex. This seems to work!

$message = ereg_replace("[\n\r]{3,}", "", $message);

This is very interesting; it implies that CR's as well as LF's are being written to the variable...

Anon

This is very interesting; it implies that CR's as well as LF's are being written to the variable...

What's are CR's amd LF's???

Anon

I've already found it!

http://www.php.net/manual/html/language.types.string.html