PHP convert line breaks to paragraph tags?

Question

I have a form that submits data to a MySQL database and then I have a page that displays the submitted data. Some of the data is articles which means multiple paragraphs. Now I want text indents for each paragraph but I only know how to do those in HTML paragraph tags. Is there any PHP function or whatever that can do this for me? I already have 'nl2br', are there any others?

Answer 1

if "$txt" is your text: (ie bla-bla< rb />blabla< rb />)

[ I am using "rb" because this editor converts "b r" ! ]



$txt = str_replace ( "< rb / >", "< /p >< p >", $txt );

// replaces all br with "end para" "para" tags.

Then:

$txt = "< p > " . $txt; // to add the first one!

Finally:

$l = strlen ($txt) - 3; // 3 is the length of the last

you have added!

$txt = substr ($txt, 0, $l);



(You MAY have to review this if you stored into a "TEXT" type: there will be "invisible" \r\n you will also have to replace with < rb >!

$txt = str_replace ("\r\n", " < r b / > ", $txt);

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Use css to set the demonstrate characteristic to inline. however the element of p tags is to set aside self reliant paragraph blocks, so... what's the semantical which technique of regardless of you opt to insert?

Answer 4

nl2br will probably do what you need, but if you need more you'll probably have to write a little parser.