[FX.php List] Separating out paragraphs in text variable

[Bob Patin]

Kevin,

Thanks for the reply; all I really need is to get my paragraphs  
separated... but for whatever reason, I use this:

$body = nl2br($body);

and I still get the same bad results that I showed below...

Sigh...

Bob


On Dec 11, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Kevin Futter wrote:

> On 12/12/06 11:45 AM, "Bob Patin" <bob at patin.com> wrote:
>
>> I thought I'd already solved this, but apparently not...
>>
>> I have a site where I can type an entry into a form, and then it's
>> displayed on the site...
>>
>> If I enter
>>
>> Line 1
>>
>> Line 2
>>
>> Line 3
>>
>> I get:
>>
>> Line 1Line 2Line 3
>>
>> Someone please refresh my memory: what's the command to take the
>> variable (call it $text) and have it display properly?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob Patin
>
> nl2br() will work if you're not fussy about semantic markup, but  
> since I am,
> I wrote a function that churns out legitimate HTML paragraphs,  
> rather than
> torrents of break tags.
>
> function formatDesc($input)
> {
> $br = chr(10); // single line feed character (LF)
> $p = "<br />\n<br />\n";
> $badChars = array($p, "& ");
> $goodChars = array("</p>\n\t\t<p>", "&amp; ");
> $text = str_replace($br, "<br />\n", $input); // replace LF with  
> <br />
>
> $description = str_replace($badChars, $goodChars, $text);
> echo "<p>" . $description . "</p>\n";
> }
>
>
>
> -- 
> Kevin Futter
> Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
> http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
>
>
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