nl2br function formatting problem

Anon

When I use the nl2br function on a string, it returns something like this:

First Line

Second Line

Third Line

How would I convert that output to something like this:

First Line Second Line Third Line

cordex

run a:
$string = preg_replace("/\n|\r/",'',$string);

on the string

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What is the reason that you want to remove the newlines from the nl2br output?

You can just forget nl2br() and use
str_replace("\n", " ");
that will replace the newline by just the GR tag.

Note: don't do this on very large strings, some browsers just don't like to get a 4k string all on one line.

Anon

I want to remove the new lines because I want the string to be stored in the database without the new lines. This will also prevent the new lines from coming up when the string is printed to a text file, or an html file.

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"I want the string to be stored in the database without the new lines."

bad practice.

It is better to store the string as it was entered, and only process it if you need a different format. Once you replace the newlines by breaks, there is no way of telling which BR tags are real BR tags, and which BR tags used to be newlines. That sounds like a trivial thing to worry about, but there will come a time when that is exactly what you need to do.