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Heriberto Juarez
Heriberto Juarez

Reputation: 271

How to replace html line breaks after applying htmlspecialchars

I hope you can help you as you always do, thanks.

I have a form to input information in a textarea, I let the users write html tags because sometimes they would want to literaly write the html tags, so if they write something like this as input:

<h1>This is the input content</h1>
I like Pizza
I like Cheese
This is the end of the input, as you see I pressed enter several times

I save the input using nl2br, something like this:

$textForDataBase = nl2br($_POST['input']);

Then the database value is something like this:

<h1>This is the input content</h1>
I like Pizza<br />I like Cheese<br />This is the end of the input, as you see I pressed enter several times

Then before displaying the content I apply htmlspecialchars to my string but I want that all html tags that's not a break line to be converted to html entities, So I tried to use preg_replace but i had no luck, What can I do?

$html = htmlspecialchars($val['descripcion']);
echo preg_replace('#<br\s*/?>#i', "\n", $html);

If I don't use htmlspecialchars the output would be something like:

This is the input content

I like Pizza
I like Cheese
This is the end of the input, as you see I pressed enter several times

But if I use it:

<h1>This is the input content</h1>
I like Pizza<br />I like Cheese<br />This is the end of the input, as you see I pressed enter several times

The expected output would be:

<h1>This is the input content</h1>
I like Pizza
I like Cheese
This is the end of the input, as you see I pressed enter several times

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1088

Answers (2)

Mahipal Patel
Mahipal Patel

Reputation: 543

when u store input detail in db remove nl2br and store user detail as same as like input value and then when u display value first use htmlspecialchars and then use nl2br and finally echo it.

just change like this.

$textForDataBase = $_POST['input'];

$html = htmlspecialchars($val['descripcion']);
echo nl2br($html);

Upvotes: 1

Haider Ali
Haider Ali

Reputation: 964

Perhaps you could use strip_tags();

<?php 
$string = "
<p>This is a p element</p><a href=''>An a element</a><h1>This is the input content</h1> I like Pizza<br />I like Cheese<br />This is the end of the input, as you see I pressed enter several times";

$output = strip_tags($string,"<br>");
echo $output;

Upvotes: 0

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