Hi there, Ahhh thanks, that was a quick way to do it, I took the long way around LOL :-) I grabbed the data, did $article = str_replace("<br>", "", $article); and then looped through all of the entries to change it, it seems to have worked though :-) Chris > Chris Payne wrote: > > I have a DB system which i've just rewritten for a travel website. Previously it used <BR>'s for linebreaks but i've made it much more efficient. My problem it, there are 10+ travel guides which us <BR>'s and I want to remove them on over 100 pages (In a MySQL DB). > > > > Using PHP, how can I write a simple script to go through all the entries for a column (Called articles) and remove all instances of <br> or <BR> ??? It would take far too long to do it page by page :-( > > I know this is a PHP list, but why use PHP? > > UPDATE table SET column = REPLACE(column,'<BR>',''); > UPDATE table SET column = REPLACE(column,'<br>',''); > > -- > ---John Holmes... > > Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ > > PHP|Architect: A magazine for PHP Professionals – www.phparch.com > > > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php