[PHP] str_replace() problems actually *_replace() problems to be more accurate

[Thomas Bolioli]

I am a perl/java/c++ programmer who is doing something in php and have 
run accross something I am stumped with. I am trying to replace carriage 
returns with <br> or <p> tags (p's in groups of two and br's for any 
unmatched cr's). I have tried all of the *_replace() functions including 
string_*, ereg_* and preg_*. None have worked the way they seem to 
should. Note, I am a perl programmer and preg_replace() did not work 
while a test perl script did. I have tried multiple forms of patterns 
from "\r\n" to "\n" to "\r" to "/\r?\n/ei" (in the *reg_* functions). I 
even took code verbatim from examples in the docs to no avail. I have 
included the entire block of code (and mysql_dump output) since there is 
something I have apparently not done right and it may not be in the 
pattern matches.
Thanks in advance,
Tom

*The offending code:*

}elseif($_REQUEST['add']){
$desc = $_REQUEST['description'];
str_replace("\r\n\r\n", "<p>", $desc);
str_replace("\r\n", "<br>", $desc);
$result = mysql_query('INSERT INTO hr_listings 
(title,description,location,end_date,posting_date) 
VALUES("'.$_REQUEST['title'].'","'.$desc.'","'.$_REQUEST['location'].'","'.$_REQUEST['end_date'].'", 
NOW())',$db)
or trigger_error("MySQL error nr ".mysql_errno().": ".mysql_error());
	

*Output of mysql_dump showing the \r\n's going in*
INSERT INTO hr_listings VALUES 
(15,'test',5,'2003-06-16','2003-09-11',NULL,'This
 is one line\r\nThis is the next\r\n\r\nThis is another 
paragraph\r\n\r\n');
INSERT INTO hr_listings VALUES 
(16,'test2',1,'2003-06-16','2004-09-11',NULL,'Thi
s is one line\r\nThis is the next\r\n\r\nThis is another 
paragraph\r\n\r\n');



--
PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php