nl2br() but..

[Anon]

nl2br(); converts newline to <br />, but I just want to have plain <br> where the line ends, and start the new line on a fresh, empty line..
Any ideas?

[[deleted]]

so you want top replace a newline by a BR and a newline?

[Anon]

guess it will be something like that. now I get this HTML-code:

line1
<br /="">
line2
<br /="">
line3

but I wan´t it like:

line1<br>
line2<br>
line3

[vincentpeace]

You could forget nl2br altogether and use ereg_replace
$string = ereg_replace('\n','<br>',$string)
or maybe str_replace would be quicker.

[kparker]

That's odd. Your second example ('what you want') is exactly what I get when a try a simple example.

&nbsp;&nbsp;echo nl2br("this\nis\na\ntest");

gives

&nbsp;&nbsp;This&lt;br&gt;
&nbsp;&nbsp;is&lt;br&gt;
&nbsp;&nbsp;a&lt;br&gt;
&nbsp;&nbsp;test

What version of php is this, and on what platform?