Question

I have just stored a paragraph of text in a MySQL database using JavaScript and PHP and replaced \n with <br />, the problem I’m now having is when I try and retrieve the text using PHP it prints it out as; <br />

Dear Sir/Maddam<br />This is a letter concerning the following;<br />I would like to.... 

Answer 1

Well, the obvious solution is to just not replace \n with <br /> in the first place.

I don’t know what language you’re trying to reverse the damage in…

// PHP:
$out = preg_replace("/<br ?\/?>/i","\n",$in);

// JS:
out = input.replace(/<br ?\/?>/ig,"\n");