Break long text into <div> sections

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I have a page that displays long text stored into db.
The text can have paragrsphs.

I need to take that text $db->longText and put each paragraph into a separate <div>.

Now:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla in odio at nulla fringilla placerat. Aenean dapibus consequat sem, non lobortis diam condimentum eget.

Integer ac purus lacus, sed accumsan nisl. Duis dignissim justo vel massa luctus scelerisque. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.

Nulla quis nunc quis neque luctus tempus. Vestibulum fermentum facilisis est, at sodales sem dictum eu. Sed scelerisque elementum mauris id vehicula. Nunc aliquam diam viverra turpis suscipit egestas.

Need:

<div>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla in odio at nulla fringilla placerat. Aenean dapibus consequat sem, non lobortis diam condimentum eget.
</div>
<div>
Integer ac purus lacus, sed accumsan nisl. Duis dignissim justo vel massa luctus scelerisque. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.
</div>
<div>
Nulla quis nunc quis neque luctus tempus. Vestibulum fermentum facilisis est, at sodales sem dictum eu. Sed scelerisque elementum mauris id vehicula. Nunc aliquam diam viverra turpis suscipit egestas.
</div>

halojoy

In order to help you
we must know exactly how the text looks FROM THE DATABASE.
As you know the taxt we see in a browser
is not the same as the source HTML code.

I see no <br /> in webpage. Only in THE SOURCE.

You should take text as a $string directly from database
and use the CODE tags here to post it for us.

If this is how your text actually looks in database
then we could replace some <br /><br /> with <div></div>

<br />
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla in odio at nulla fringilla placerat. Aenean dapibus consequat sem, non lobortis diam condimentum eget.<br />

<br />
Integer ac purus lacus, sed accumsan nisl. Duis dignissim justo vel massa luctus scelerisque. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.<br />
<br />
Nulla quis nunc quis neque luctus tempus. Vestibulum fermentum facilisis est, at sodales sem dictum eu. Sed scelerisque elementum mauris id vehicula. Nunc aliquam diam viverra turpis suscipit egestas.

bradgrafelman

Even if you don't have BR entities and just line breaks (e.g. \n or \r or \r\n), you can go with halojoy's suggestion and use [man]str_replace/man to replace the two breaks in a row with "\n</div>\n<div>\n" to add the div's.

Does the text really start out with two line breaks as you have it shown above? If so, you'd want to trim off the first "</div>" generated by the str_replace() method.