Php/docs/function.nl2br
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nl2br
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
nl2br — Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string
Description
nl2br
( string $string
[, bool $use_xhtml = TRUE
] ) : string
Returns string with <br /> or
<br> inserted before all newlines (\r\n,
\n\r, \n and \r).
Parameters
string- The input string.
use_xhtml- Whether to use XHTML compatible line breaks or not.
Return Values
Returns the altered string.
Examples
Example #1 Using nl2br()
<?phpecho nl2br("foo isn't\n bar");?>
The above example will output:
foo isn't<br /> bar
Example #2 Generating valid HTML markup using the use_xhtml parameter
<?phpecho nl2br("Welcome\r\nThis is my HTML document", false);?>
The above example will output:
Welcome<br> This is my HTML document
Example #3 Various newline separators
<?php$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() - 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
