nl2br
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
nl2br — Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string
Description
$string
[, bool $is_xhtml
= TRUE
] ) : string
Returns string
with <br />
or
<br>
inserted before all newlines (\r\n,
\n\r, \n and \r).
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 />
Changelog
Version | Description |
---|---|
5.3.0 |
Added the optional is_xhtml parameter. Before
this version '<br />' was always inserted.
|
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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