[RESOLVED] problem writing a js array with php

VisionsOfCody

I'm unfortunately in a situation where I have to write a js array with data from a db - the problem is that the text strings from the db contain line returns and this is causing a real problem with js because it cuts the line and returns the error "unterminated string literal"

so what I'd like to do is replace the line returns with " "

here's what I'm trying at the moment:

while($row2=mysql_fetch_array($res2)){
	$imageV = $row2['ima_file'];
	$textV = stripslashes($row2['ima_text']);
	$textV = str_replace('[/\n/]', '<br>', $textV);
	$textV = str_replace('[/\r/]', '<br>', $textV);
	echo "imagesArray[i] = new Array('".$imageV."','".$textV."');\n";
}

which writes this in the page :

var imagesArray = new Array();

imagesArray[i] = new Array('rotate.gif','Conception logo et charte graphique d’un producteur distributeur
Client : Le Moulin des Costières');
imagesArray[i] = new Array('opticwaves.gif','Conception logo et charte graphique d’un producteur distributeur
d’huiles d’olive et produits de gastronomie méditerranéenne.
Client : Le Moulin des Costières');
imagesArray[i] = new Array('graphiste-623a87cd600d23d1.gif','rotate on this one');

as you can see it still goes to a new line in the middle of each string literal

what can i do to remedy this ?

thanks

leatherback

try:
$textV = trim($row2['ima_text']);
if it only contains linebreaks at the end.

Else use nl2br() to convert newlines to and do a strreplace() on those.

leatherback

use [man]trim[/man] to remove the linebreaks if they are end-of-variable only.

Otherwise use the nl2br() to convert all linebreaks to and use str_replace() to replace the with a space.

VisionsOfCody

leatherback wrote:
use [man]trim[/man] to remove the linebreaks if they are end-of-variable only.

Otherwise use the nl2br() to convert all linebreaks to and use str_replace() to replace the with a space.

hi - thanks for your reply

trim won't work because the line breaks are inside the string

i tried nl2br but the problem with that is that it doesn't remove the line break - it just seems to insert a " " just before

I was just thinking I could try doing a split() on the line breaks and then looping over the array to join it all back together with a each time i - but I'm not sure that this is even possible ... I'll give it a try

VisionsOfCody

this seems to work though

$textV = nl2br($row2['ima_text']);
$textV = str_replace("\r\n", "", $textV);

my string replace was botched anyway !

thanks