Return carriage in html

Anon

OK I store data from database in a variable called $data... but when I display the data to the screen (this way: print htmlentities($data)😉, the return carriage does not appear... it's all on the same line !! What's the error ? I have try with printf, echo and I've got the same error..

Anon

Carriage returns are generally not meaningful in HTML. Read HTML documentation on the <PRE> tag.

Alternatively, convert returns to <BR> tags. See the PHP documentation for nl2br().

Anon

I understand what you mean, but I have a fonction "htmlentities" who do not include the html tag in a message (because it's a message board and I don't want everybody doing what he wants...)

So, what could I do ?

andrin

I´m not sure I fully understand your problem.

Maybe you could scan your string with regular expressions? Can you use:

strtr()

htmlentities()

htmlspecialchars()

But as I said, I don´t fully understand your problem.

/Andrin

Anon

htmlentities() does not remove html tags; it convers special characters such as "&" into the appropriate HTML string "&"

To remove HTML and PHP code from input text, use strip_tags() or a regular expression function.

function cleanbody($body)
{

// first protect <g> smileys
$body = str_replace("<g>", "&lt;g&gt;", $body);

// clean out all illegal html
    $body = strip_tags($body,'b,i,br,p,a'); 

if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc())
	$body = addslashes($body);
$body = str_replace("\r\n\r\n", "\n<P>", $body);
return $body;
}

This considers blank lines to be paragraph enders and inserts a P tag.