Reading paragraph returns from form text

[stevenreid]

I've a facility where a site owner submits text that is saved into a csv from a textarea.

 

When it is read back from the csv I have the problem of any returns being read in as \r\n\r\n

 

I tried a character str_replace and I've read up a bit on the problem but none of the solutions I've found have seemed to work for me.

 

$thisStoryStory =  $thisStory[2];

$thisStoryStoryB = str_replace(array("\r\n\r\n", "\r\n", "\r", "\n"), "<br />",$thisStoryStory);

echo "<p>".$thisStoryStoryB."</p>";

 

was what I used and I thought should have worked fine but I still get

 

audience up for a great time.\r\n\r\nClick the link below to

 

Cheers.

[PHP_PhREEEk]

Use nl2br on the string...

 

PhREEEk

[stevenreid]

yes I tried that to no avail

 

echo "<p>".nl2br($thisStoryStory)."</p>";

 

didn't do anything

[phpSensei]

What are you trying to do?

 

Remove all that str_replace stuff, and just use

 

echo nl2br($thisStory[2]);

[stevenreid]

again - new line to break

 

echo nl2br($thisStory[2]);

or

echo nl2br($thisStoryStory);

 

doesn't work at all

 

Could the server's version of PHP have anything to do with it?

 

what about the page encoding?

 

I've tried UTF and ISO