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Lovelock
Lovelock

Reputation: 8075

converting text line breaks in database when they are echo'd out

I am using ckEditor as a BBCode editor and having to do a bit of deeper work than just installing some plugins.

When saving to the database, in the field i will have e.g.

1
2
3

Yet when it is echo'd out it is

123

I need help converting those line breaks in the database, and either putting each line into a

tag or created something out of the line breaks.

I am using this function to convert other BBCodes into html just cant figure out this.

function basicbbcode($text) {
    $text = str_replace("[b]", "<b>", "$text");
    $text = str_replace("[/b]", "</b>", "$text");
    return $text;
}

The other option i see is to convert the line breaks to
etc when inputting to the DB.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 55

Answers (2)

Rottingham
Rottingham

Reputation: 2604

Let the PHP engine do the work for you with new lines, as it will detect what newline characters to replace automatically.

$text = nl2br($text);

All done.

Upvotes: 2

Jesse Clark
Jesse Clark

Reputation: 133

Look for the line breaks which are going to be \n, \r or \n\r:

$text = str_replace("\n", "<br/>", "$text");
$text = str_replace("\r", "<br/>", "$text");

Upvotes: 0

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