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schart

So this is my code, it's supposed to replace <code> with <pre class='code'> as well as ending, and fix line break within a PHP form submit action.


    $questions = $_REQUEST['question'];
    $comment2 = htmlentities($questions, ENT_QUOTES);
    $question3 = ereg_replace( "\n", "<br />", $comment2);
    $question4 = ereg_replace( "&lt;code&gt;", "<pre class='code'>", $question3);
    $question = ereg_replace( "&lt;/code&gt;", "</pre>", $question4);

karlpcrowley

will replacing

\n

with

<br />

not add unwanted code to your element?
I think you may need to escape the new characters, not sure though

"\<pre class=\'code\'>"

I don't have access to test now, so I'll get back to you

schart

That is true, any way I can *not escape in the pre* ?

karlpcrowley

Check this out:
http://jsfiddle.net/T7jPC/

The code and pre tags were messing with this comment box

schart

@karlpcrowley - Thank's :) - I saw another problem I fixed (and after that, it worked). When inserting info into my database, I have to use ', so when <pre class='code'> came, it messed up, so I just edited the pre to <pre class=code>instead! :)
Thank's for your wonderful help!

karlpcrowley

no problem, don't know why I didn't think of leaving the class unquoted

schart

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