Question

I’ve created some code that automatically posts one message a day on a facebook page of mine.
Those messages contain line breaks.
In my original text in the db the linebreaks are <br />,
but my php code replaces the tag with a \n.

$quote = preg_replace('/(<br \/>)/',' \n',$quote);

Now, the line breaks work fine, except that at the end of each line the \n shows up, too!
So on the facebook page feed it looks like this:

A good traveler leaves no tracks, \n
and a skillful speaker is well rehearsed. \n

Is my replace wrong? Or does anyone have a similar experience?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Special characters like line breaks have to be in double quotes (see php strings documentation):

$quote = preg_replace('/(<br \/>)/',"\n",$quote);

Also see this example.