Convert some HTML Characters but keep others.

[vanroojdotcom]

Hi there – wondered if anybody could help me with this would be really grateful for a quick reply!

 

I need to pull off a load of text from a database (with paragraphs and line breaks etc) but the company I have to send the data to has very specific requirements.

 

The character < and the character > cannot be used, but the br and p can.

 

So <br> and <p> would have to be <br> <p>

 

Any ideas?

Thanks Vanrooj

[axiom82]

$paragraph = str_replace ('>', '>', $paragraph);

$paragraph = str_replace ('<', '<', $paragraph);

 

 

[vanroojdotcom]

Thanks for the reply. Sorry to appear a little slow here but where would that fit into my code?

 

 

DESCRIPTION="<?php echo ($row_rsttheJobResults['description']); ?>"

 

 

This is the line that grabs the description from the database.

 

Thanks

Vanrooj

[vanroojdotcom]

The reason I ask is that I feel I need to do two things to this code

 

1) convert the code to create the /n into a <p> (I know that nl2br() converts to br)

2) then convert the < and the > into t<br> and <p>

 

 

Thanks

Vanrooj