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

[Kevin Futter]

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";
}



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Kevin Futter
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http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/



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