Looking for simple solution to "styling" html source code...

[cgm225]

I have a notes/blog app I coded in which (1) I grab an entry from a database, then (2) use the nl2br() function on the body of the entry, followed by (3) outputting of the that text (now with html BR tags).  However, as seen here for example (see the html source code), using the nl2br() function messes up my nice HTML source code organization (i.e. the uniform indenting of the code, etc).  Therefore, I wanted to know if there was another way to insert html BR tags for carriage returns within the body of my note entries when outputting them so that there will not also be inserted a break in the html source code (i.e. essentially a \n after the break, which I don't want).

 

Basically, I want my source code to look pretty again, and nl2br is messing it all up...

 

Any ideas?  Looking for a simple solution here.

 

Thanks again!

 

note, by BR tags I mean <br />

[marcus]

<?php
$string = "this string
has
breaks
in
it";

echo str_replace("\n","<br>",$string);
?>

 

that will just replace a new line with a break and not a break and an additional return.

[cgm225]

Thank you so much!

[teng84]

<a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php">nl2br</a>

[marcus]

<a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php">nl2br</a>

 

^^didn't bother reading first post.