Question

i get from db a text like this.

{br}{/br}hello!{br}{/br}

this text is outputted inside a textarea element.

what i need is to replace all the '{br}{/br}' with invisible char '\n' which should set a enter space in the textarea itself. hoping 🙂

what i tryed to do is.

$text = str_replace('{br}','\n',$text);
        $text = str_replace('{/br}','\n',$text);

then output $text in textarea, but chars \n are visible 😐

Answer 1

Use str_replace with a double quoted "\n" for it to be interpreted as a newline; '\n' with single quotes is a literal backslash followed by an n.

$text = str_replace('{br}{/br}', "\n", $text);

I’m not sure why you’re calling str_replace once for {br} and once for {/br}. Do you want each pair of {br}{/br} to be replaced by two new lines? If so, you could do that more simply with a single call:

$text = str_replace('{br}{/br}', "\n\n", $text);