[RESOLVED] preg_repace: html paragraph to ASCII numbered list

leatherback

Hi all,

I have a funny one..
I wrote a few routines to take simple HTML formatted pages to numbered lists using pregreplace. Works great. Now I am adding PDF output to my site, so I need to create the same functionality, but in ASCII. And I am confused..

First off, the preg_replace seems to work:

$pattern = '/\<p\>(.*?)\<\/p\>/is';
$replace = '$1\r\n';
$preparation = preg_replace ($pattern, $replace, $preparation);

However, no matter what I try, I cannot get line breaks. The PDF generator class seems to be taking the \n and/or \r as string literals? I am using the EZPDF class (http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf) as my host is not willing to assist me with getting pdflib installed. How would I get proper linebreaks? Any suggestions?

Subsequently.. I would like this list to be numbered. Is there an easy way to do this? If so: how?

Thx,

Jelle

NogDog

\r and \n only have their special meaning within a double-quoted string, so you may have to do something like:

$preparation = preg_replace ($pattern, "$1\r\n", $preparation);

leatherback

NogDog wrote:
\r and \n only have their special meaning within a double-quoted string, so you may have to do something like:
$preparation = preg_replace ($pattern, "$1\r\n", $preparation); 

Oddly enough.. that makes sense, I should have known better. Happily enough.. I just might have solved the whole issue. The class has a method writeHTMLCell. If I can get that to work, I might be home-free.

Will give it a try now.

leatherback

Hehe,
gotta love these packages. the writeHTMLCell worked perfectly! I can now use almost all the coding I did for the HTML output (Except that I need to adjust some CSS into HTML formatting). Beauty!