nl2br question

[trevlb]

i am using nl2br to parse a string from a database.

to test it i just passed the string as a variable in the url.

i have tested this on two servers with php installed.

one is 4.0.6 one is 4.3.3

my php works on the 4.3.3 server, but on the other one (using the same code) it doesn't seem to find the line breaks in the string.

has anybody experienced something like this?

[zapa]

strange,
work around could use..

$name_event = str_replace("\n", "<br>", $name_event); // to store the string

$name_event = str_replace("<br>", "\n", $name_event); // to retrieve it

[trevlb]

yeah, it is strange.

i actually tried str_replace as well. but, on the server with the older version it just didn't recognize the line breaks in the string. if i 'view source', they are there, but the function doesn't seem to see them.

[zapa]

how about sample code? take a look at it.

ido you mean you see <BR> in the HTML source file or you see line returns?

[trevlb]

i'm seeing line returns in the source. like:

line one
line two

not the actuall \n character. but, like i said the code is working on one server.

the php code is:

<?php

echo nl2br($testString);

?>

the variable is being passed in the url. the source code from one server gives me:

line one
line two

the other:

line one <br >
line two <br >

[zapa]

ok try this on the server that want work right for you..

see if this test works or not.
then you will be sure that server is messed up or we are messed up lol

$name_event = "test \n test2 \n test \n test last \n";
print $name_event;
print nl2br($name_event);
$name_event = str_replace("\n", "<BR>", $name_event);
print $name_event;

output should be:
test test2 test test last test
test2
test
test last
test
test2
test
test last

[trevlb]

yeah, that worked. i had actually already tried a similar test to make sure that function was working. it seems the problem is in the string being sent itself. or how php is viewing the string.

[zapa]

well, not sure what to do now besides ask for what the information you are trying to pull from database.

if nothing works you can use <BR> in your database. so when you read it you dont have to do nl2br but you would have to convert it back to other way then.

but its strange

[trevlb]

well here are two links with the url encoded variable

i'll delete them from this post in a little while, but just so you can see.

i'm actually using flash to call the page, so flash came up with these strings. i guess %OD% is url for line break. any way check them out and you'll see what i mean.