Removing extra white space in Text area boxes

[kevinkhan]

I have a form on my website with a text area input field. I am looking for a php function that can strip the formating from the Text and take out line breaks and paragraphs so that when i retrieve the information from database i can change it from this

 

_____________________________________

 

FANTASTIC BARGAINS
ALL
SPRING / SUMMMER

2010
...... STOCK

NOW
REDUCED

 

to this

 

FANTASTIC BARGAINS ALL SPRING / SUMMMER 2010...... STOCK NOW REDUCED

 

 

does anyone know what fucntion i could use for this?

 

i have this so far but it doesnt seem to be working

 

$descr = '';
            if(strlen($row['description']) > DESCR_LIMIT) {
                $descr = (substr($row['description'], 0, DESCR_LIMIT).'...');
            } else {
                $descr = $row['description'];
            }
            $descr = preg_replace("/(\r\n)+/", " ", $descr);
            $descr = preg_replace("/ +/", " ", $descr);
            $status .= $descr;  

 

 

 

[Ninjakreborn]

Just run str_replace for '/n', '/r', '<br />' and ' '. 

So take your string and run it through str_replace 3 times to clear

out all of the things that would add whitespace.

[wildteen88]

All you need to do is replace all newlines with a space,

$descr = preg_replace("~(\r?\n)+~", ' ', $descr);