Don’t do nl2br when you save it to the database. Do nl2br when you’re displaying the text in HTML. I can strongly recommend to not store any HTML formatting in the database (unless you’re using a rich HTML editor as well, in which case it would be silly not to). A newline \n will just … Read more
There is already the nl2br() function that inserts <br> tags before new line characters: Example (codepad): <?php // Won’t work $desc=”Line one\nline two”; // Should work $desc2 = “Line one\nline two”; echo nl2br($desc); echo ‘<br/>’; echo nl2br($desc2); ?> But if it is still not working make sure the text $desciption is double-quoted. That’s because single … Read more
Ben’s solution is acceptable, but str_replace() is by far faster than preg_replace() $buffer = str_replace(array(“\r”, “\n”), ”, $buffer); Using less CPU power, reduces the world carbon dioxide emissions.