nl2br Issue

[jjfletch]

I want to get rid of the \r\n and print input from the textarea box on my form. I'm using nl2br, but:

        if(!empty($_POST['fieldname'])) { 
                $de = escape_data(nl2br($_POST['fieldname']));
        } else { 
                $de = ' '; 
        }      

just returns this:

Take two and call me
\r\nin the
\r\nmorning.

So, it's putting in the breaks, but not getting rid of the \r\n...

Help?

[SD-Syndicate]

From your code Ive never used that "escape_data" function... Have you tried using nl2br without that?

if($_POST['fieldname']) {  

                $de = nl2br($_POST['fieldname']); 
        } else {  

                $de = ' ';  

        }
echo $de;

[tekky]

escape_data isnt a standard PHP function, atleast its not listed on php.net... so that very well could be screwing it up... not to mention php.net doesnt make reference to nl2br replacing \r's

[jjfletch]

Yes... my bad...

escape_data is a function:

function escape_data ($data) {
        global $dbc;
        if (ini_get('magic_quotes_gpc')) {
                $data = stripslashes ($data);
        }
        return mysql_real_escape_string (trim ($data),$dbc);
}

How would I be able to use this and still use nl2br? (Which, incidentally, does work when not used with escape_data.

Thanks

[tekky]

throw an option flag on escape_data to do an nl2br inside the function before the strip slashes, or do it prior to calling escape_data....