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(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

nl2br — Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string

Description

nl2br ( string $string [, bool $is_xhtml = TRUE ] ) : string

Returns string with <br /> or <br> inserted before all newlines (\r\n, \n\r, \n and \r).

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Parameters

string

The input string.

is_xhtml

Whether to use XHTML compatible line breaks or not.

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Return Values

Returns the altered string.

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Examples

Example #1 Using nl2br()

<?php
echo nl2br("foo isn't\n bar");
?>

The above example will output:

foo isn't<br />
 bar

Example #2 Generating valid HTML markup using the is_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 />

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Changelog

Version Description
5.3.0 Added the optional is_xhtml parameter. Before this version '<br />' was always inserted.

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See Also

  • htmlspecialchars() - Convert special characters to HTML entities
  • htmlentities() - Convert all applicable characters to HTML entities
  • wordwrap() - Wraps a string to a given number of characters
  • str_replace() - Replace all occurrences of the search string with the replacement string

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