Question

I’m using PHP simple html dom to edit some html files. The problem is that when I save, it deletes all carriage returns. How can I preserve them?
Thanks

Answer 1

The API documentation doesn’t show them, but file_get_html and str_get_html functions have a bunch of extra fun parameters, just open up simple_html_dom.php:

function file_get_html(
  $url, $use_include_path = false, $context=null, $offset = -1,
  $maxLen=-1,
  $lowercase = true,
  $forceTagsClosed=true,
  $target_charset = DEFAULT_TARGET_CHARSET,
  $stripRN=true,
  $defaultBRText=DEFAULT_BR_TEXT)

function str_get_html(
  $str,
  $lowercase=true,
  $forceTagsClosed=true,
  $target_charset = DEFAULT_TARGET_CHARSET,
  $stripRN=true,
  $defaultBRText=DEFAULT_BR_TEXT)

Maybe you could set $stripRN to false, which would otherwise do this in simple_html_dom->prepare():

//before we save the string as the doc...  strip out the \r \n's if we are told to.
if ($stripRN) {
    $str = str_replace("\r", " ", $str);
    $str = str_replace("\n", " ", $str);
}