Posted by Randy Webb on 07/26/07 19:20

Rik said the following on 7/26/2007 1:19 PM:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:49:41 +0200, Randell D.
> <fiprojects.com@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I am cross-posting on purpose, even though my problem appears to be
>> javascript related there might well be a function unknownst to me that
>> will help resolve the problem before sending to the client...
>>
>> Basically I have a textarea box that is saved from client via php into
>> my mysql database.
>>
>> When I later try to restore the data I can see it in the HTML source
>> from my browser (I'm using latest version of Firefox) but an error in
>> the javascript console tells me the variable is not terminated... This
>> is because there is a newline character in my text.
>>
>> I've tried addslashes and htmlentities in php but its not worked for
>> me - can someone advise me of what the solution/workround is?
>
> $string = str_replace(array("\n","\r"),array('\n','\r'), $string);

Shouldn't that be:

$string = str_replace(array("\n","\r"),array('\\n','\\r'), $string);

As simply replacing "\n" with '\n' doesn't escape the \ in the newline
sequence which is what is throwing JS as PHP is reading it as a newline
and breaking the line up before being sent to the browser.

--
Randy
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