I have a question along this line... is it possible to have PHP do
more than one str_replace at the same time? or would I need to pass
through each time seperately? I.e I wasn to check for Line returns and
change it to <p>, i want to replace "[c]" with a special formating
tag.... etc...?
Thanks?
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:55:31 -0400, Felipe Alcacibar
<falcacibar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> if the returnns are "\n" you only need nl2br("this \n test \n")... or
> preg_replace("/((\r|\n)|(\r\n|\n\r))/", "<br />", "this \r\n test \r\n")...
> good luck...
>
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>
> > To the list:
> >
> > I've googled and searched the manual, but I'm still looking for a simple
> solution to a simple problem.
> >
> > I have a MySQL database of text stories in longtext MySQL fields. These
> stories have simple returns (\r) in them and no other formatting. I need to
> use these stories both for web and print production, so I need to be able to
> get the text out of MySQL via PHP and have those returns change to <P> tags.
> But I also need to keep those extra <P> tags out of the database file so the
> text can be exported and poured into a layout program.
> >
> > HTMLspecialchars and HTMLentities don't seem like the right solution, but
> maybe I'm missing something. Do I have to use regular expressions in PHP as
> the text is pulled from the database?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > --veditio
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