Allowing user to create paragraphs and line breaks

[lauralee]

I have added a function in a helpers file so that an administrator can edit text for input and UPDATE, but I can't get the paragraph code to work. Does the administrator type in literally \n\n or "\n\n" or something else in order to create a paragraph in the text? I've tried both, but they simply show up as text characters in the result....No new paragraph. Am I missing something, or does the user type in something other than \n\n or "\n\n"?<?phpfunction html($text) { return htmlspecialchars($text, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); } function htmlout($text) { echo html($text); }function bbcode2html ($text){// Convert Windows (\r\n) to Unix (\n) $text = str_replace("\r\n", "\n", $text); // Convert Macintoch (\r) to Unix (\n) $text = str_replace("\r", "\n", $text); //Paragraphs $text = '<p>' . str_replace("\n\n", '</p><p>', $text) . '</p>'; //Line breaks $text = str_replace("\n", '<br />', $text); return $text;}

[Synook]

The \n escape sequence represents a newline (i.e. the character produced when you press the enter key), so that is what you would type. The display string "\n" would be escaped to "\\n".

[lauralee]

When I typed \n in the form where I wanted a paragraph to be placed and submitted the entry, it UPDATED the text with a literal \n where it was typed.

[ckrudelux]

When I typed \n in the form where I wanted a paragraph to be placed and submitted the entry, it UPDATED the text with a literal \n where it was typed.

maybe you are looking for this? http://se2.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

[birbal]

if i am not missunderstanding...you need to use nl2br() for showing a paragraph(<br/>) in the place of new line.

[lauralee]

maybe you are looking for this? http://se2.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

I'm not sure how to use what is in that part of the manual, or how it applies to my problem. I just now retried to use the \n\n in the text field and it worked this time. Don't know what the difference was, but it works now.

[lauralee]

I'm not sure how to use what is in that part of the manual, or how it applies to my problem. I just now retried to use the \n\n in the text field and it worked this time. Don't know what the difference was, but it works now.

I found that the "\n\n" should have been '\n\n' in the code below. It was the use of the double quotes that kept the line break from working properly.//Paragraphs$text = '<p>' . str_replace("\n\n", '</p><p>', $text) . '</p>';//Line breaks$text = str_replace("\n", '<br />', $text);