[thelist] PHP string tip...

[john corry]

Hi all!
Sorry for being so quiet lately, I've been busy for the last couple month or
so a) preparing to travel, b) traveling and c) making up for work I missed
while traveling :) It was pretty fun though, we got to go to Maria's in
Santa Fe for the best margarita's and combination plate in the world.

So I just solved a problem I've been turning over in my head for awhile and
thought I'd share my solution as a...

<tip type="php string to paragraph function">
Got a big wad of text from a database you want to turn into multiple
paragraphs? I do. MySQL stores the line breaks, but you lose them when you
convert it back to a string variable in your script. So, I wrote this handy
little function:

// make_p(string, $class="string")
/* takes a string and stuffs it into <p></p> tags, and also replaces all
carriage returns (chr(13)) with </p><p> tags. So you wind up with your
string neatly broken into paragraphs. Assign a class attribute to the
resulting <p>'s with the optional second argument, $class */

function make_p($string, $class=""){
if (isset($class)){
$p = "<p class = \"$class\">"}
else{
$p = "<p>";
}
 $string = str_replace( chr(13) , "</p>$p" , $string );
 $string = $p. $string. "</p>\n";
 return $string;
}
</tip>

Thanks :)
John Corry