Wrap paragraph's in <p> tags?

[Perad]

How do you detect a new line in an input box and wrap the content in paragraph tags?

[pdkv2]

Use the php function

nl2br()

this will convert the new line to

<br>

tag

 

Regards

Sharad

[nethnet]

The function nl2br() will replace all new lines with <br /> tags, but if you need to put the content inside <p> tags, then you could try the following:

 

<?php

$raw_content = $_GET['textbox'];

$lines = explode("\r\n",$raw_content);

$formatted = array();

foreach ($lines AS $line){
   if (!empty($line))
       $formatted[] = "<p>" . $line . "</p>";
}

?>

 

The $formatted array will then contain each line from the form inside <p> tags.  Also, this will work if the content is coming from a <textarea> because the form uses both \r and \n for new lines.  If this doesn't work, play around with "\r", "\n", and "\r\n" to see which works if you aren't working with a <textarea>.

 

Theo

[Perad]

Thanks a lot I will give it a go.

[resago]

preg_replace('/(.*)\n/','<p>$1<\/p>',$data);