[Resolved] issues with nl2br

ucbones

nl2br doesn't seem to work too good for me...

say I have a textarea called "post", I then process the form script thus...

<?
$post=stripslashes($post);
$post=nl2br($post);
?>

Now what I'd hope that would do is to remove the slashes that get added before some symbols (that works great!), and remove the newlines, and replace them with (or as PHP does for some reason .

My problem is this, the new lines are still there, not really a problem, except for when I want to edit my post. I cleverly convert my 's back to \n's to ensure the post gets seen as it should, but because of the non-removal of my \n's, there are double the number of \n's as there should be (as I still have the old \n's and the new ones which are there as a result of the replacement of to \n.

Any idea how to strip all new lines from my post after I've nl2br'ed it?

Many thanks,

ucbones

leatherback

You could of course do:

$post = str_replace("\n" , "", $post);

Or not use nl2br at all

$post = str_replace("\n" , " ", $post);

\J.

ucbones

Cheers, that was mind-numbingly obvious wasn't it!!! Many thanks leatherback

ucbones

Weedpacket

Another option of course is str_replace(" ","");

yet another is to not use nl2br() on text at all until you want to display it with tags.