[SOLVED] nl2br or str_replace cannot replace new lines with <br />

[obay]

I'm trying to replace new lines "\n" with "<br />"s but none of these seem to work:

 

nl2br($text)

str_replace("\n",'<br />',$text)

 

oh, it adds the <br /> all right, but it still doesn't remove the \n.

 

If text is

 

the quick
brown fox

 

it is converted to

 

the quick
<br />brown fox

 

when it's supposed to be

 

the quick<br />brown fox

 

I've tried everything else: ereg_replace, using "%0D%0A" instead of "\n", using "\n\r" instead of "\n".. etc.

 

Any suggestions?

[xtopolis]

Try

str_replace("\\n",'<br />',$text);

[obay]

Try

str_replace("\\n",'<br />',$text);

 

No it doesn't work. It replaces all "n"s with <br /> lol

 

any other ideas?

[obay]

SOLVED.

 

$input=str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n"),"",nl2br(htmlentities($_POST["field"])));

 

Here: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=249369.0