Newlines

thoand

Hi, I have this content management system that I am working on and have one litle problem.

When inserting entries in the database I convert all newlines from forms with ereg_replace(); like:

$foo = ereg_replace ("\n", " ", stripslashes($foo));

but sometimes I need to paste HTML code into the form, eg. a TABLE

The problem then is that will be generated after each <td>, <tr> <table> and so on.

Is there a easy solution to this 🙂 or do I have to make a comprehensive regular expression function to deal with it?

any solution?

regards Thomas A.

laserlight

You could also store with the newlines then use nl2br() on output.

Actually, why use ereg_replace() when there is nl2br() for that purpose?

Mordecai

Well, nl2br() will still give him the same problem. It will be much faster at doing it, but it'll still not work correctly.
Is there no way you can insert the table after they are changed? I don't see a very easy way around it.

Also, I don't like to use nl2br() merely because it uses rather than , and I never liked that...

altexis

is no different from in any way.
it is just XML friendly... nothing more

the political correct way with adding and retrieving data from databases is to store the data exactly as you receive them! no nl2br(), no htmlspecialchars()

now when you print them.. do it like this: nl2br(htmlspecialchars($data))

Natty_Dreadlock

Maybe u can use a little html-parser to realize that... I made one a few months ago. If u r interested, I can mail u the class.
Concerning and :
Using the -Style is the more compatible and modern way... Moreover, when u r going to output xhtml (the future of html) some days, the good old will cause parser errors.
Hasta siempre

laserlight

It doesnt really matter if nl2br() is used or if his own little hack is used if the data is stored with the newlines then the change is effected on output.

altexis re-iterated my point, and it should work, unless the tables concerned somehow cannot be separated from the data.