[SOLVED] advice on r\n problem

[shadiadiph]

my problem is this if the user submits their message it goes back to the message and displays the message again however when the message displays on the error it is messed up it is just text ful of r\n\r\n how can I fix this for example

 

hello\r\n\r\nwebmaster\r\n08-05-2009\r\nYou username and password for website.com\r\n\r\nHTML message \r\n \r\nDear 

[gevans]

Do you want to get rid of them, or put some <br /> in place?

[Ken2k7]

nl2br?

[shadiadiph]

i already tried nl2br did nothing made no differnce to it the text is being displayed in a <textarea> yes I want to tyun them back into linebreaks

[gevans]

you mean back into breaks? \n is a linebreak (that's not what you want)

[gevans]

Can you show your code?

[shadiadiph]

when i first send it for displaying in the textarea i strip all the css and html tags first or it just displays as html in the text area but this is how i first get it to display

 

$newmessage = preg_replace("'<style[^>]*>.*</style>'siU",'',$newmessage);
$newmessage = strip_tags($newmessage);
$newmessage = str_replace("\n\n\n", "", $newmessage); 
$newmessage = "\n\n\n".$touser."\n".$daterec."\n".$subject."\n".$newmessage."\n";

 

it is then returned as a $_POST and when it goes back into the message it displays like this

 

before on first display

webmaster
08-05-2009
You username and password for website.com

HTML message 

Dear $user,

You have successfully signed up website.com
Your username and password are as below and both are case sensitive.

Username:

 

second display which i want it to go back to like the first display

\r\nwebmaster\r\n08-05-2009\r\nYou username and password for websitecom\r\n\r\nHTML message \r\n \r\nDear $user,\r\n \r\nYou have successfully signed up at website.com\r\nYour username and password are as below and both are case sensitive.\r\n \r\nUsername: 

 

 

[gevans]

Id nl2br() isn't working try using this;

 

$replace = array("\r\n","\r","\n");
$newmessage = str_replace($replace, "", $newmessage);

[shadiadiph]

mm doesn't work still displays the same

[shadiadiph]

don't know if its relevant or not but when i post it i do this to it first

 

$newmessage   = $_POST["newmessage"];
$newmessage   = stripslashes($newmessage);
$newmessage   = mysql_real_escape_string($newmessage);

 

odd don't know why str_replace doesn't work i just tried it to replace just n and it worked but \n doesn't or \r or \r\n

[gevans]

$newmessage  = mysql_real_escape_string($newmessage);

 

take that line out and it should be fine

 

no need for mysql_real_escape_string() here

[shadiadiph]

yep thanks removing mysql_real_escape_string worked mysql_real_escape_string must lock a string or str_replace would work right

 

used this as stripping \r\n removed all the breaks but then had to use strip_tags to get rid of the <br /> tags when it displayed

 

$newmessage = nl2br($newmessage);
$newmessage = strip_tags($newmessage);

 

thanks for the help