RE: Remove newlines from field

["Giff Hammar" <ghammar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Miles Thompson [mailto:miles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 6:17 PM
To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  Remove newlines from field

<tops snipped>

>At 04:00 PM 3/20/2006, you wrote:
>
>
>I am using a PHP script to pull information from a FoxPro database via
ODBC.
>One of the fields is a memo field (large text) that contains newline 
>characters. Displaying this info to the web page is fine as the 
>newlines are ignored. The challenge is when I combine user entered text 
>with the existing info and try to update the database. It fails with an
"unrecognized command"
>because the end of field delimiter is on a different line. We're 
>running on PHP 4.2.7 and I have tried using various combinations of 
>str_replace to eliminate the newline characters, but I have been 
>unsuccessful. Any suggestions?
>
>Giff
>
>Giff Hammar
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Giff,

Are you inserting back into the FoxPro table? I had to use the following to
clean up text, cut and pasted from WPfor Windows 5.2, into a textarea. 
Immediately before the INSERT I also used PHP's addslashes(). The database
is MySQL.

         // have to clean up the extraneous CR/LF combos
         $trupara        = ".\r\n"; // period+CR+LF
         $dblquotpara    = '"'."\r\n"; // double quote+CR+LF
         $sglquotpara    = "'"."\r\n"; // single quote+CR+LF
         $questnpara     = "?\r\n"; // question+CR+LF
         $exclampara     = "!\r\n"; // exclamation+CR+LF
         $colonpara      = ":\r\n"; // exclamation+CR+LF
         $dudspc = ". \r\n"; // period+spc+CR+LF
         $flspara                = "\r\n"; //CR+LF
         $truflag                = "***"; //something unique

         $txtBody = str_replace ( $trupara, $truflag, $txtBody);
         $txtBody = str_replace ( $dblquotpara, "$$$", $txtBody);
         $txtBody = str_replace ( $sglquotpara, "%%%", $txtBody);
         $txtBody = str_replace ( $questnpara, "+++", $txtBody);
         $txtBody = str_replace ( $exclampara, "!!!", $txtBody);
         $txtBody = str_replace ( $colonpara, ":::", $txtBody);
         $txtBody = str_replace ( $dudspc, "###", $txtBody);

         $txtBody = str_replace ( $flspara, " ", $txtBody);
         $txtBody = str_replace ( $truflag, ".\n\n", $txtBody);
         ///double quote
         $txtBody = str_replace ( "$$$", '"\n', $txtBody);
         ///single quote
         $txtBody = str_replace ( "%%%", "'\n", $txtBody);
         ///question mark
         $txtBody = str_replace ( "+++", '?\n', $txtBody);
         ///exclamation mark
         $txtBody = str_replace ( "!!!", '!\n', $txtBody);
         ///colon
         $txtBody = str_replace ( ":::", ':\n', $txtBody);
         ///dudspace
         $txtBody = str_replace ( "###", '.\n\n', $txtBody);

         $txtBody = str_replace ( "\n ", "\n", $txtBody);

Hope this is helpful - Miles

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====

Thanks for the help! A combination of this and the nl2br finally solved the
problem and allowed me to process the update to the database. Now it's on
the figuring out why VFP doesn't accept \ to escape special characters ....

Giff

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