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Big John

08-22-2006 12:50 PM

A Quick PHP Question...

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

08-22-2006 12:52 PM

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

munki

08-22-2006 12:55 PM

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

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

boldy

08-22-2006 12:56 PM

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

not sure. :)

Nookster

08-22-2006 12:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by munki

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...

Code:

function br2nl($text) {

   $text = str_replace("<br />","",$text);

   $text = str_replace("<br>","",$text);

   return $text;

}

boldy

08-22-2006 01:01 PM

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

boldy

08-22-2006 01:02 PM

try this

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

Big John

08-22-2006 01:02 PM

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

Big John

08-22-2006 01:08 PM

That did it - \r :)

boldy

08-22-2006 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big John

That did it - \r :)

You are welcome :thumbsup

Big John

08-22-2006 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by boldy

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 :)

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