[skalie]

Howdy, I've got this bug, which I've been spending far too long trying to solve, time to call in the cavalry...

I'm using...

$foo=ereg_replace("<br>",chr(13),$foo);

and....

$foo=ereg_replace(chr(13),"<br>",$foo);

...to register the enter key as a <br> and vica versa when throwing data in and out of a mysql database using an input / edit form.

Problem is that when someone edits everything but the first line, a <br> (which is not seen by that someone) remains.

Anyone know of a quick fix?

[philzilla]

Originally posted by skalie:
Howdy, I've got this bug, which I've been spending far too long trying to solve, time to call in the cavalry...

I'm using...

$foo=ereg_replace("<br>",chr(13),$foo);

and....

$foo=ereg_replace(chr(13),"<br>",$foo);

...to register the enter key as a <br> and vica versa when throwing data in and out of a mysql database using an input / edit form.

Problem is that when someone edits everything but the first line, a <br> (which is not seen by that someone) remains.

Anyone know of a quick fix?

my brain doesn't seem to be functioning properly today, so i'm not sure if i read this right, but, do you need something like this?
ereg_replace("\r\n", "<br />", $foo);

[skalie]

Originally posted by philzilla:
my brain doesn't seem to be functioning properly today, so i'm not sure if i read this right, but, do you need something like this?
ereg_replace("\r\n", "<br />", $foo);

Not quite, well it doesn't seem to do more than the

$foo=ereg_replace(chr(13),"<br>",$foo);

version did.

It's quite a difficult one to describe.....say if I didn't use the ereg_replace the textfield to be editted would appear in the form as

bla<br><br>bla

but after using the ereg_replace the textfield to be editted appears as

bla

bla

removing the second "bla" leaves a <br> after the first "bla" in the code

[Arkham_c]

This seems to work fine for me:

[php]
<?php

$str = "a <br><br> b <br><br> c";

print str_replace("<br>", "\r\n", $str);

?>
[/php]

It prints:

Code:
a 

 b 

 c

[Simon Mundy]

Do you mean you get unnecessary line spaces at the start or end or your string?

Simple:-

$foo=ereg_replace("<br>",chr(13),trim($foo));

or vice versa... trim() gets rid of linefeeds, tabs and other whitespace from both ends of the string.

[skalie]

Originally posted by Simon Mundy:
Do you mean you get unnecessary line spaces at the start or end or your string?

Simple:-

$foo=ereg_replace("<br>",chr(13),trim($foo));

or vice versa... trim() gets rid of linefeeds, tabs and other whitespace from both ends of the string.

Simon it's 5.30 am and you just made my day, thanks a million.

I had tried adding $foo=rtrim($foo); after the ereg_replace statement, but now it's all coming a little clearer.

I knew there had to be an easy method.

Sometimes I think I'm far too much of a perfectionist to be a programmmer, spending hours on tiny potential problems while the real work lags way behind.

[philzilla]

Originally posted by skalie:
spending hours on tiny potential problems while the real work lags way behind.

ugh, tell me about it

[Simon Mundy]

Originally posted by philzilla:
ugh, tell me about it

I get distracted with anyone else's problems but my own. Like these forums, for example. Keeps me interested, but sure makes my deadlines stretchy...