[wysiwyg] remove line breaks/carriage returns

I created a wysiwyg editor from the tutorial.

The editor then stores the content into the DB. However, after some tags, like a horizontal rule, there is a line break in the HTML code that the wysiwyg creates. This is no problem except that I use this code to populate a variable in a javascript on another page, and the line breaks are causing errors in the script. I just need to get rid of the breaks and either put a space there or nothing at all.

Is there some way to get rid of this before I insert it to the database, or remove it after I query it and use it in javascript? If so, what is the character that I should be looking for? I tried the ascii value for a CR and that didnt work. Again, I fear the line breaks are screwing up my javascripts....

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for the help!

ur talking about doing it in php right?

if so, try this:

Use str_replace instead of ereg - much faster

Cheers,
Joe of 4Life

Yep, Joe is right. If you don't need the power of a regular expression, you should use str_replace.. The same applies to split, etc...

Actually I want to do it in Cold Fusion.

I used a similiar CF function and it did not work.



The code does not error, it just doesn't see any /r....

$value = str_replace('\r', '', str_replace('\n', '', $value));

I don't understand why you're getting the error in the first place. I have used a similar WYSIWYG edit written from MSHTML and use javascript to populate it with the data pulled form a database and it doesn't cause any problems. What is the exact error you are getting?

To strip line breaks in CF, you need to use the CHR() function. I believe CHR(13)&CHR(10) represents a line break.

You just answered it. I was missing chr(10), was only replacing chr(13)... 10 was what I was looking for!


Thanks!

Awesome! You guys saved me some looking around here, because I was also stuck with this same situation.

I wanted to take text from a multiline text box from a user, and save that text on one line in a delimited text file, so
that later I could easily retrieve the entry from that text file and display it (for users add news to a entry page).

This is the code I used to diplay it nicely, it might need some additional tweaking!



The first line takes the actual inputfrom the user and adds htmlentities for all the quotes, &, etc.
The second line adds the "br" tags for the line returns when you output the data back
the third line and fourth line replace the line feeds as described above. I just route the output back into
the same variable, and then output it to a simple text file! Works like a charm!

Thanks again!