How to remove "newlines" ?

[Anon]

strip_tags($row[description], '\n');

It seems not to work... How can I remove newlines character from a stored string taken from a MySQL table ?

Thank you

Fabio

[Anon]

nl2br maybe?

Diego

[Anon]

thanks, ok, but I suppose that the previous function could strip both html and php tags... isn't \n a php tag ? I don't know...

So I will do something like:

strip_tags(nl2br($row[descr]), '<br>');

isn't it ?

thanks a lot

Fabio

[Anon]

oooops, "\n" - that's not a html tag
use this:
str_replace("\r\n", "", $string);
or
str_replace("\n", "", $string);

?? strip_tags(nl2br($row[descr]), '<br>');

[Anon]

?? strip_tags(nl2br($row[descr]), '<br>');

Yes, it is not working but I belive it could be ok. I say: take description and place <br> where you find \n, then I was supposed that strip_tags could work removing html tags like <br> ...but it isn't...

Thanks for your help, your string

str_replace("\r\n", "", $string);

work pretty well, what is \r ?

[Anon]

...what is \r
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

...
Editor's Note: Each major operating system uses a different character or
set of characters to indicate the end of a line.

Macintosh: \r
Unix : \n
Windows : \r\n

The code below allows the line endings to be easily replaced with a br tag
on any of the three major OSs ...