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nl2br

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

nl2br — Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string

Description

string nl2br ( string $string )

Returns string with '<br />' inserted before all newlines.

Parameters

string

The input string.

Return Values

Returns the altered string.

ChangeLog

Version Description
4.0.5 nl2br() is now XHTML compliant. All older versions will return string with '<br>' inserted before newlines instead of '<br />'.

Examples

Example#1 using nl2br()

<?php
echo nl2br("foo isn't\n bar");
?>

The above example will output:

foo isn't<br /> bar

See Also


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