Re: str_replace problem

[Silvio Porcellana <sporc@xxxxxx>]

Chris Ditty wrote:
> Hi all.  I'm trying to do a little code snippets page for a site I am
> working on.  I figured it would be simple enough.  I would do a
> str_replace and replace the various html codes with the ascii
> eqivulant.  Unfortunately, it is not working as expected.  Can anyone
> help with this?
What is that you are actually expecting?

> This is what I am using.
> $snippetCode = str_replace("\n", "<br>", $snippet['snippetCode']);
nl2br() [http://php.libero.it/manual/en/function.nl2br.php]

> $snippetCode = str_replace("<", "&gt;", $snippetCode);
> $snippetCode = str_replace(">", "&lt;", $snippetCode);
> $snippetCode = str_replace("&", "&amp;", $snippetCode);
>
> This is what is in $snippet['snippetCode'].
> ?><pre><? print_r($ArrayName); ?></pre><?
>
> This is what is showing on the web page.
> ?&lt;&gt;pre&lt;&gt;? print_r($ArrayName); ?&lt;&gt;/pre&lt;&gt;?
This is what you are asking PHP to do.
Actually - to achieve this - it would be better to use the 'htmlspecialchars()' function 
[http://php.libero.it/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php]

Anyway, probably I didn't understand what you want from your code...

Cheers!
Silvio Porcellana

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