escaping HTML question

[Anon]

Hi,

I have a string which contains HTML. I need to dump this in a JavaScript variable called initialValue. So this is what I have (I hope it turns out good in this forum):

<script>
var initialValue = "<?
echo str_replace("
","\n",addslashes($mrow['description'])); ?>"
</script>

so I used an actual hard-enter in my code with the replace - but somehow, this doesn't always do the trick... can anyone help? tnx!

[Anon]

it doesn't always do the trick?

be more specific please

[Anon]

well, the problem is : the HTML comes from a javascript-based HTML-editor (using an IFRAME that's editable, it's built-in in IE and I think it's also used in hotmail, you know, the rich text editor), and then gets stored into the database. Now, it's crucial that, when putting it back into the text-editor (with a javascript variable) all newlines are replaced by \n (which will translate to \n after echo-ing, so javascript knows there is a newline). This seems to work most of the time, but not always, and I can't seem to figuere out when the problem occurs. Does anyone know of a better way to replace the newlines?
just replacing \n by \n doesn't work either... maybe I'll have to try with regex?

[Anon]

this seems to work :
echo str_replace("\r\n","\r\n",addslashes($mrow['description']));

I think my previous code worked fine with PHP and mySQL under windows2k, but now I moved it to my linux RH server, it didn't work anymore and I have to do it like that...

can anyone explain this difference? tnx!