nl2br
Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string
Description
string nl2br(string $string
, bool $use_xhtml
= true
)
Parameters
-
string
-
The input string.
-
use_xhtml
-
Whether to use XHTML compatible line breaks or not.
Return Values
Returns the altered string.
Examples
Example #1 Using nl2br
<?php
echo nl2br("foo isn't\n bar");
?>
The above example will output:
Example #2 Generating valid HTML markup using the use_xhtml
parameter
<?php
echo nl2br("Welcome\r\nThis is my HTML document", false);
?>
The above example will output:
Welcome<br>
This is my HTML document
Example #3 Various newline separators
<?php
$string = "This\r\nis\n\ra\nstring\r";
echo nl2br($string);
?>
The above example will output:
This<br />
is<br />
a<br />
string<br />
See Also
- htmlspecialchars
- htmlentities
- wordwrap
- str_replace