Firefox/Explorer problem

[Dan Pearce]

Processing some text from an external text file into a web page. If I
use this:

<?
$s = file_get_contents('text.txt');
$search = array("@\r\n@si");

$replace = array('</br>');

echo preg_replace($search, $replace, $s);
?>

Explorer shows the text as it appears in the file;

This is some test text
This is some test text

This is some test text
This is some test text

but Firefox displays

This is some test textThis is some test textThis is some test textThis
is some test text

Now if I use

<?
$s = file_get_contents('text.txt');
$search = array("@\r\n@si");

$replace = array('<br></br>');

echo preg_replace($search, $replace, $s);
?>

The firefox output is correct but Explorer now double spaces everything

This is some test text

This is some test text

This is some test text

This is some test text

Any ideas on how to correct this? Thanks in advance for your time.

Dan

[David Haynes]

Dan Pearce wrote:

Processing some text from an external text file into a web page. If I
use this:

<?
$s = file_get_contents('text.txt');
$search = array("@\r\n@si");

$replace = array('</br>');

echo preg_replace($search, $replace, $s);
?>

Shouldn't that be either:
$replace = array('<br />');
or
$replace = array('<br>');

-david-

[Rik]

Dan Pearce wrote:

Processing some text from an external text file into a web page. If I
use this:

<?
$s = file_get_contents('text.txt');
$search = array("@\r\n@si");

$replace = array('</br>');

Here's you problem already:
It should be '<br />' in XHTML, '<br>' in HTML.

echo preg_replace($search, $replace, $s);

>>

Explorer shows the text as it appears in the file;

Apparantly MSIE forgives your mistake and chooses to interpret '</br>' as
'<br>'. FF correctly interprets it as a bogus tag and tries to ignore it.

Why not use the function nl2br() though?
Or, if you have a text-file with preformatted text, use the HTML <pretag.

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

[Dan Pearce]

Thanks.
Feeling extremely stupid for missing that now...

[Alvaro G. Vicario]

*** Dan Pearce escribió/wrote (5 Jul 2006 06:57:45 -0700):

Explorer shows the text as it appears in the file;

This is some test text
This is some test text

This is some test text
This is some test text

but Firefox displays

This is some test textThis is some test textThis is some test textThis
is some test text

You must be aware that the look of what either browser will render
dependents strictly on two things:

- The source code
- The MIME type

Alright, PHP can alter both of them, but the first step would be checking
the "View-Source" menu

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