Good point. Only problem is, if someone hit enter a-million times,
you would end up with a-million spaces where the "\n" characters were.
To take care of that repetition, maybe something like:
while (strpos($textarea_text, "\n\n")) {
.....
}
would be one way you could do it.
On 6/13/05, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Use the PHP str_replace function before writing it to the DB. Replace
> > all "\n" characters with an empty string "".
> >
> > http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php
>
> I think it might be better to replace all "\n" characters with spaces " ",
> otherwise you will end up with sentences that have no space break between
> them.
>
> Ie:
>
> <original text>
> This is the first sentence.
>
> This is the second sentence.
> </original text>
>
> ...would become:
>
> <replaced text>
> This is the first sentence.This is the second sentence.
> </replaced text>
>
> Regards,
>
> Murray
>
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