Onloac Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 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? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162133-best-method-for-adding-content/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Why doesn't nl2br() work for you? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162133-best-method-for-adding-content/#findComment-855546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onloac Posted June 14, 2009 Author Share Posted June 14, 2009 I'm not sure what was going wrong before but its seems to have worked itself out. Thanks! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/162133-best-method-for-adding-content/#findComment-855550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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