Problems with line breaks :-\

[D-Shap]

Hey Everyone,

I am working on a PHP script that retreives values from a db and then writes them to a page in a JavaScript array so that they can be quickly accessed by some other Jscript functions on the page.  The db values are values that have all been submitted by a form on another page by a user.  The problem is this:  When a user creates a line break in the text area (presses enter), it adds the value to the javascript array, but it actually breaks the line in the Jscript code.  This causes a problem because then it is an invalid way to set an element of an Array in Jscript.  I've attempted many times to use string replacing functions in PHP to solve the problem, but it always seems to make that break.  Any ideas?

Thanks so much!

- Dan

[Jorge Solis]

Can you post what did you try?

Jorge

[D-Shap]

Hi Jorge,

I've got a loop through the database rows that dynamically creates the elements in the JS array.

Code:

<?php<br><br>print "<br><script language=\"Javascript\"><br>var infoArray;<br>infoArray = new Array();";<br><br>$getData = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Information", $link);<br>while ($entry2 = mysql_fetch_array($getData))<br>      {<br>      $TheInfo = $entry2[Info];<br>      $TheInfo = str_replace("\n", "<br>", $TheInfo);<br>      $TheInfo = addslashes($TheInfo);<br>      print "\n\tinfoArray[".$entry2[Day]."] = \"".$TheInfo."\";";<br>      }<br><br>print "</script>";<br>?>

OK this works perfectly without line breaks in the db values.  The addslashes() is a built-in function to automatically escape quotation marks and back-slashes.

Here is what the one element in the array looks like when a db value has a line break in it though:

Code:

<script language="JavaScript">
var infoArray;
infoArray = new Array();
infoArray[0] = "hi this value doesn't have line breaks and works fine";
infoArray[1] = "this one has a line break and
<br>the line has been broken";
</script>

It breaks the line in the JS code for setting the array element and that is invalid and won't work.

Do you have any ideas on how to get around this?

Thanks SO much,

- Dan

[D-Shap]

AHHHHHH,

Problem solved  

Just to let everyone who doesn't already know...

Line breaks for windows are done with \n AND \r.

So I used str_replace("\r", "", $TheInfo); after the one for "\n" and everything works fine.

Thanks for the help that you probably were generously going to give me, you always have been able to solve any problem  

- Dan