<?php /** * * String helper class * */ abstract class Sheldon_Misc_String_Helper { /** * @param $sStr – String to clean * * @return string clean string * */ static function cleanWhitespaces( $sStr ) { if ( ! empty( $sStr ) ) { return preg_replace(‘/\s+/’, ”, $sStr ); } return $sStr; } /** * reverse […]
As a reverse function of nl2br you can use: <?php /** * reverse function for nl2br * @param $string – string with br’s * @return string – string with \n */ function br2nl($string) { return preg_replace(‘/\<br(\s*)?\/?\>/i’, “\n”, $string); } ?>
Hence nl2br does NOT really replace newlines with <br /> tags (it only inserts a <br /> tag before each \n → newlines themselves are preserved), you can use this function to get it right (realNl2Br): /** * @param $string – string with * @param bool $xhtml – deliver xhtml confom br’s or not (<br […]
