converting html to text using strip_tags

[coderb]

Hi All,

 

I've built a email preview page which displays either html email or the text version of the same, depending on user choice.

 

I use echo strip_tags($email) to display the text version.

 

But in the browser window, all the text is displayed as a string of words, losing any line breaks.

 

When I look at the page source of this page, all line breaks are still correct.

 

So why is the browser suppressing all the line breaks, tabs etc? And how can I retain them?

 

thanks for any help,

 

 

[discomatt]

try nl2br(strip_tags($email))

[coderb]

great. thanks discomatt, that worked.

 

just one more question on that, my text version has extra line breaks that I don't want.

is there a way to strip down all extra line breaks?

 

I tried trim(nl2br(strip_tags($email))); 

but no change.

 

cheers

[discomatt]

Well, this gets tricky as php has a hard time finding out which are extra, and which should be there...

 

easier bet is to use str_replace("\r\n\r\n", "\r\n", $input) for win and str_replace("\n\n", "\n", $input) for *nix generated files

[coderb]

thanks for your help, much appreciated.