--- Thomas Bolioli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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);
I believe you need to assign this to something. So your lines would
look more like:
$desc=str_replace("\r\n\r\n", "<p>", $desc);
$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');
>
>
>
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