Posted by Michael Austin on 01/26/06 20:00

John K wrote:
> I'm new to PHP and come from and ASP background...
>
> I want to replace line feeds in user submited textareas with <br> or
> <p> or <div>. In ASP I do this to replace carriage return/line feeds
> with <p> in a record of a recordset...
>
> Replace(rsWhatever("fld_whatever_field"), vbCrLf, "<p>")

an example from the PHP manuals:

$text="this is my text string\r\n";
$text=str_replace("\r\n","<br>",$text);
or
$text=str_replace("\r\n","<br>",$_POST['myvariable']);
where:
"\r" = CR
"\n" = LF
>
> I don't know how to accomplish this in PHP. I know I have to use
> str_replace() but I'm confused by the syntax.

str_replace([old_string],[new_string],[text string])

where old_string and new_string can be an array of text.

>
> Thanks for the help!
>

You're welcome.

Michael.

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