nl2br

Issue: When using HTML Purifier to process user-inputted content, line-breaks are not being translated into <br /> tags. Consider the following user-inputted content: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. This is another line. <pre> .my-css-class { color: blue; } </pre> Lorem ipsum: <ul> <li>Lorem</li> <li>Ipsum</li> <li>Dolor</li> </ul> Dolor sit amet, MyName When processed using HTML Purifier, the above is being altered to the following: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. This is another line. .my-css-class { color: blue; } Lorem ipsum: Lorem Ipsum Dolor Dolor sit amet, MyName As you can see, " MyName "

I have a system set up for users to submit their articles into my database. Since it will just be HTML, I don't want to expect them to know to type <br /> every time there's a newline, so I am using the PHP function nl2br() on the input. I'm also providing an article modification tool, which will bring their articles back into the form (this is a different page, however) and allow them to edit it. In doing this, the <br /> elements were appearing also (with newlines still). To remedy the elements appearing (which I had expected, anyway) I added preg_replace('/<br(\s+)?\/?>/i', "\n", mysql

I am retrieving a product description value stored in database from admin through textarea upon form submit. When I select the description from database I get $description = $row['description']; and I would like to echo $description on main page like this: echo nl2br($description); but I see "\r\n" characters instead of making new rows. From what I've found here and on the net, your string must be used between double quotes, like this: echo nl2br("Hello, \r\n This is the description"); Now, the value of $description from database is in fact "Hello, \r\n This is the description" but in my

In most cases, as for one interactive website, when we output multiple lines of contents to web client browser, in my opinion, <BR /> is much more preferable than other two: \n or PHP_EOL . Else, we need to use " <pre></pre> " to wrap the output content or use nl2br() to insert <BR /> before \n so as the multiple line mark can take effect in HTML. Like following example. $fruits = array('a'=>'apple', 'b'=>'banana', 'c'=>'cranberry'); // Multiple lines by \n foreach( $fruits as $key => $value ){ echo "$key => $value \n" ; } // Multiple lines by PHP_EOL reset( $fruits ); while ( list($key,