convert carriage return to <br>

[Anon]

I need to grab content from a txt file and change all carriage returns into <br> tags.
Any help would be much appreciated.

[mattee]

see the manual
search for nl2br()

[Anon]

The easiest way I found was to use something along the lines of:

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

This worked fine for me.

[Anon]

hi david,

use this:

nl2br(stripslashes($var));

cheers,

jojit

[[deleted]]

hi david

i'll give you a bit of code
which will pickup some text. from a text file and will echo it on the page.
i think this should help you out

copy the code replace the value of the variable $fileToBeOpend to the path of the text file thats to be opened. make sure the file is there

<?php

// fopen — Opens file or URL and links it to 
// (fp is a file pointer)
// (here it opens in read-onlymode)

$fileToBeOpened="path/to/the/textfile.txt";

$filepointer= fopen($fileToBeOpened,"r");

while(!feof($filepointer))
{
	// fgets — Gets line from file pointer (fp here)

	// filesize -- Gets file size

	$strSingleLine = fgets($filepointer,filesize($fileToBeOpened)); 

	// concanate the single lines obtained to a large string

	$strDescription. = $strSingleLine;

}

// converting new line or rather carriage returns to <br> tags using nl2br function

// string nl2br(string string);

$strDescription. = nl2br($strDescription);

// actual printing of the text obtained
echo "The file : ".$fileToBeOpened." contains <br>";
echo $strDescription;

// destroying the mem variables used in to code
unset($filepointer);
unset($fileToBeOpened);
unset($strSingleLine);
unset($strDescription);

?>

if you still have quereies

mail me at [e-mail]

[[deleted]]

Ehm... yeah.. ok...
Getting back to the original question.... :-)