Posted by JM on 01/13/07 17:48

Before storing information from a form in database I perform follwing
operations on it :
$path =
mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags(trim(urldecode($_POST['path']))));
$summary =
mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags(trim(urldecode($_POST['summary']))))

When I look in database I see '\r\n' in the text for the summary
wherever I pressed return-key.
When i retrieve the information from database and display it on webpage
'\r\n' is displayed even when I use
nl2br or
str_replace("\r\n", "<br/>", $content) or
str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), "<br>", $text) or
preg_replace("/\r\n|\n|\r/", "<br>", $text)
the '\r\n' is replaced with a <br>.
How is the possible ? The functions work when I let them handle a string
like "A little bit of\r\ntext".

A folder is stored as 'H:\\\\My Pictures\\\\Anemone.jpg' in the
database. When I want to display the folder I use the function
stripslashes first but then I still get 'H:\\My Pictures\\Anemone.jpg'.
Why should I apply stripslashes twice ?

Hope you can help me,

JM!

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