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Best Method for Adding Content


Onloac

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It's been a while since I've coded PHP and I'm currently trying to refresh my memory. I'm trying to add a string of data to my database and then extract it and display it on a page. I've done this but the only problem is it does not maintain the linebreaks. I check my database through PHPadmin and its in tact. I did some research and found out about nl2br() but it doesn't seem to be working for me. I extract the string into a variable called $string then put string in nl2br($string) and echo the result and it doesn't work. I came across this function on the net.

function nl2brStrict($text, $replacement = '<br>')
{
return preg_replace("((\r\n)+)", trim($replacement), $text);
}

and it seems to do the job, only problem is it doesn't do it well enough. It maintains some of the linebreaks, but if there are more then two linebreaks after another it will only display one. Whats wrong?

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