[SOLVED] replace a <br /> with an empty space

[tecmeister]

Hi Guys,

 

I'm trying to replace <br /> with an empty space.  I'm removing the br / but not the < >.  This is the code I'm using:

 

$about = $row['about'];
$br = "<br />";
echo preg_replace($br," ",nl2br($about));

 

How do I remove the < > aswell?

 

Thanks,

 

tecmeister.

[Alex]

You shouldn't be using PCRE functions when you don't need to, they use a lot more resources than you need to waste. Instead use str_replace(). The reason why it's only replacing br / is because preg_replace is trying to use < and > as delimiters.

 

echo str_replace("<br />", " ", nl2br($about));

[tecmeister]

Thank you very much again Alex for your help

[salathe]

I am intrigued to know why you want to undo what nl2br does, and replace it with something else. Why go through the process of adding BR tags only to substitute them with something else?

[Alex]

Yea, why not just do:

 

echo str_replace("\n", " ", $about);