A Quick PHP Question...

[Big John]

I need to combine some strings and send them to a page with a multi-line form field in it (hope that makes sense). In itself this is simple and so's the problem...

I want to insert a line break betweek each bit of data (it's an address field and I want each piece on its own line). How to do it? Obviously being an form field <br \> won't work so what do I use? Is there an escape character?

for example I want:

$ addressfield = $ street . (new line) . $ city . (newline) etc

I figure someone here must know how to do something so simple. It's such a daft thing to not know how to do that finding how is proving impossible.

[Nookster]

$addressfield = $street . '\n' . $city . '\n' . $etc;

[munki]

I think this is what you are looking for, or at least close.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

[boldy]

use "\n\r" or "\r"

not sure.

[Nookster]

I think this is what you are looking for, or at least close.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

Actually he's looking to do the opposite. Here's a bit of code I found years ago that does the trick if you need to convert <br> tags to the newline char...

function br2nl($text) {
   $text = str_replace("<br />","",$text);
   $text = str_replace("<br>","",$text);
   return $text;
}

[boldy]

a newline char is \r in a multiline textfield like textarea .

[boldy]

try this

$addressfield = $street . "\r" . $city . "\r";

[Big John]

\n wasn't working for some odd reason. Hmmm...thanks for the replies. I'll try combining it with r as suggested

[Big John]

That did it - \r

[boldy]

That did it - \r

You are welcome

[Big John]

a newline char is \r in a multiline textfield like textarea .

You'd be amazed how hard it is to find that little bit of info. I found quite a few pages listings various escape characters etc that missed out the /r. Oh well - now I know and won;t forget. Thanks again