Posted by David Mark on 07/26/07 20:34

On Jul 26, 3:20 pm, Randy Webb <HikksNotAtH...@aol.com> wrote:
> Rik said the following on 7/26/2007 1:19 PM:
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> > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:49:41 +0200, Randell D.
> > <fiprojects....@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Folks,
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> >> 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...
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> >> Basically I have a textarea box that is saved from client via php into
> >> my mysql database.
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> >> 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.
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> >> I've tried addslashes and htmlentities in php but its not worked for
> >> me - can someone advise me of what the solution/workround is?
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> > $string = str_replace(array("\n","\r"),array('\n','\r'), $string);
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> Shouldn't that be:
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> $string = str_replace(array("\n","\r"),array('\\n','\\r'), $string);

Nope.

http://us.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.single

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