Replacing space characters in forms

[Crooksey]

I am just starting out in php.

I have a html form which I have grabbed the values out of.
I want to insert some values into text, however I wish to remove the spaces.
I am trying to use the str_replace but cannot get it to work.

It gets more complex, as I only want to remove the spaces in certain parts of the text.

Here is what I originally did.

This is the value that I am using : <?= $form['text'] ?>

I gave the value another name : <?= $form['text'] = $newtext ?>

I then used the string_replace thing : <?= $newtext = str_replace(" ","",$newtext); ?>

And then to show the text <?= echo $newtext; ?>

I am sure there is something easy that I am doing wrong.

Please help.

[eriksmoen]

$newtext = eregi_replace(" ", "", $newtext);

also

$newtext = trim($newtext);

takes the spaces off the front and back of the string, but leaves the one's inside alone.

hope it helps.

[cgraz]

You have

<?= $form['text'] = $newtext ?>

Backwards. It should be $newtext = $form['text']

But there's no need to do all that. If you want to echo $form['text'] after all the spaces have been stripped out, use

<?= str_replace(" ", "", $form['text']) ?>

Cgraz

[Crooksey]

Thankyou to you both.

I now have it working and are most appreciative of your help!!

Crooksey