removing newlines completely

[cliffette]

Hi,

I'm taking in some text input from a textarea field, and I'd like to remove newlines from it. I've used nl2br and

   $text = ereg_replace("\n", "<BR>", $text); 

but these just add in a BR tag so that the HTML appears to have a newline. It doesn't remove the actual newline from the text. Is there a way to remove the newlines completely?

eg.
My text input is like this:

Hello

Line 2.

Currently I can only edit it to this:

Hello
<BR>
<BR>Line2

But I'd like it to be formatted to this:

Hello<BR><BR>Line 2.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance if you do!

[cahva]

This should work:

$text=nl2br($text);
$text=str_replace("\n",'',$text);
echo $text;

[PHPThorsten]

On my windows systen this is doing the job:

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

on my linux box

$text = ereg_replace("\n", "<br>", $text);

is doing it

[cliffette]

It's still giving me the newlines... it just adds the BR tag before each newline.

[cliffette]

Thanks PHPThorsten!

It worked- good old operating system problems...

Thanks again 🙂