Double breakes using wrap=hard and nl2b

[Anon]

The text from a textarea with wrap=hard is
stored in a textfield in a mySQL db and
then displayed on a site with nl2br.
Sometimes, that gives you double line-breaks:

"
bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla
"

from the form becomes:

"
bla bla bla bla

bla bla bla bla
"

on the site - why, and what can I do?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards
Daniel

[Anon]

Hard wrapping inserts a newline character where the text is broken by the end of the textarea box. nl2br inserts a break tag before each newline. So, your text ends up having a newline char and a break tag.

You may want to str_replace() your newline chars with a break tag instead of nl2br.

[Anon]

Thanks, but it didn't help.

I tried with:

$annontext = str_replace("\n","<BR>",$annonstext);
echo $annontext;

but it gave a double-break to some rows,

$annontext = preg_replace("/\n/","<BR>",$annonstext);
echo $annontext;

wasn't very sucessful either either.
Is my php bad, or can there be
something wrong with my FORM?

<FORM ENCTYPE=\"multipart/form-data\" METHOD=\"post\" ACTION=\"gogogo.php\">
<TEXTAREA COLS=70 ROWS=10 WRAP=\"hard\" NAME=\"mager\"></TEXTAREA>

Thanks again in advance!

/Daniel

[Anon]

I used this this worked fine for me:

$s_data = ereg_replace("(\r\n|\n|\r)", "<br />", $text);

[Anon]

I have not noticed text from a textarea adding in the \r like it sometimes does when you create the text in notepad, but you are correct Richie with that RegEx. It says to replace any instances of \n or \r or \r\n.

I wonder if the \r always comes before the \n. Is this a MS thing?

I am not aware of any consistant behavior with regards to this. I would be interested in knowing what browser you are using to input the text as well as what type server you are using.

I have opened text in a Hex editor to try and verify some consistancy with this and I have never been able to come to a reliable conclusion. If anyone has any experience with this issue, please enlighten me.

[Anon]

A space " " before "\r\n" was sometimes
addding an extra break, so this worked:

$atext = ereg_replace("(\r\n| \r\n)", "<br>", $antext);

Does the space-importancy say you
guys anything? Thanks for everything!

Also, would it be wrong to write:

$atext = ereg_replace("(\r\n| \r\n)", "<br>", $atext);

instead, and why? Just a matter of looks?

/Daniel