Help with preg_replace and regexp

[makaiguy]

Working on a small PHP mailer form project on Apache v1.3.36 to sent html-formatted mail.

Form is POSTed with message text in a textarea named COMMENT. Some code I'm adapting uses the following to strip linefeeds and replace with html breaks:
$comment = preg_replace("/\n/","\n<BR>",$_POST[COMMENT]);

Only problem is that any apostrophes in the submitted message get a \ inserted before them. Thus "it's" becomes "it\'s" in the received mail.

I don't know beans about regular expressions. Can anybody help straighten this out?

Or is there something else that needs to be done to have apostrophes show up correctly?

[harmor19]

Below that line add

$comment = stripslashes($comment);

[Code Monkey]

Why don't you just use the php function nl2br();

nl2br(string string) //Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string

[makaiguy]

Below that line add

$comment = stripslashes($comment);

Works wonderfully, thanks! And much to my surprise it even leaves slashes originally entered as part of the text intact.

Why don't you just use the php function nl2br();

nl2br(string string) //Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string

Thanks for this. It's certainly easier for me to understand the coding without having to deal with the regex.

But still getting the \' , so still have to use stripslashes().

Any idea which of the two approaches is less server intensive?

[Code Monkey]

well, nl2br was made to do that and only that, so I would guess that is the best method.