Removing line breaks

[V]

I'm trying to implement a php code in a Wordpress site to remove line breaks from excerpts. I suspect str_replace will work but I'm not sure how to use it with a function..

 

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

 

anyone have any idea?

 

 

[premiso]

Well it all depends on what the function does.

 

Does it echo or return the statement as a value? Given that it does not have an echo preceding it, I am taking that it echos. And because of this you would either need to use output buffering, change the function to return a value, or add a parameter to tell it to echo it without line breaks. (via an if statement).

[ohdang888]

I'm trying to implement a php code in a Wordpress site to remove line breaks from excerpts. I suspect str_replace will work but I'm not sure how to use it with a function..

 

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

 

i think you havta use javascript on this one. This echos it, not returns it

 

anyone have any idea?

 

 

[Alex]

As premiso said, it depends. If it returns the excerpt something like this will do:

 

echo str_replace("\n", '', the_excerpt());

 

If it echos the excerpt something like this will work:

 

ob_start();
the_excerpt();
echo str_replace("\n", '', ob_get_clean());

[V]

Thank you for the codes AlexWD For some reason they don't remove the <br> tags. Not sure if /n in the same but I tried using <br> in the code as well. Maybe I have to go into the wordpress function file and try from there.

[Alex]

<br> is an html line break. If you wanted to remove those instead use:

 

str_replace("<br>", '', ...);

 

Or if you want to remove both literal and html line breaks:

 

str_replace(array("\n", '<br>'), '', ...);

[V]

I tried a bunch of codes, still no go.. I can't wait to learn php and ditch Wordpress lol

[ohdang888]

I tried a bunch of codes, still no go.. I can't wait to learn php and ditch Wordpress lol

nah, i like wordpress.

 

i dug around the source files and found this function:

$myExcerpt = get_the_excerpt();

 

That should do it for ya

 

[V]

Thanks ohdand! It work with that

 

Yup Wordpress is cool but sometimes it really frustrates me.