[Resolved] New line in news post

bo0

Hi, I am wanting to know how to add a new line to a news post without having to type <br>.

So a user can press enter in a text-box and it will insert a new line without them having to type <br>.

Cheers.

paulnaj

nl2br() might be what you're looking for.

Paul 🙂

gfoot

Store the post as typed by the user, but when you send it to the browser, convert line feeds to <br> using preg_replace or similar:

    $post = ereg_replace("\n","\n<p>",$post);

Since web form text entry boxes don't make it clear which lines are automatically wrapped and which are due to the user pressing Enter, it's more traditional to actually use blank lines to separate paragraphs, in which case you can use this code instead:

    $post = ereg_replace("\n *\r\n","\n<p>\n",$post);

Hmm, I was going to post a complete post formatting function but some of the adverturous quoting using double backslashes got mangled in this forum's post formatting code, so I cut it out again. 🙂

bo0

Ok, this code worked:

$post = ereg_replace("\n *\r\n","\n<br>\n",$post);

Now, I have to hit enter twice for a space to be added, how do I go about making it so when I hit enter once it adds 1 space and so on?

laserlight

Now, I have to hit enter twice for a space to be added, how do I go about making it so when I hit enter once it adds 1 space and so on?

Just look at [man]nl2br/man, as paulnaj suggested.