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rightok32

I am accessing data from a MySQL database and have a longtext field which I am echoing to the user.
However, I want to convert the line breaks to paragraphs. Any ideas on how do I do this?
Thanks.

jamy_za

This should work I'd imagine:

<?php
	 // $content is whatever the string is which contains the line breaks
	 $contentArr = explode( '<br />', $content );

	 foreach( $contentArr as $paragraph ) {
	 	 echo '<p>' . $paragraph . '</p>';
	 };
?>

rightok32

Thanks. Greatly appreciated!

traq

actually, since the closing </p> tag is optional, you could just do

$content = str_replace( '<br>','<p>',$content );

saves a few opcodes.
jamy_za's solution works as well, of course.

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