new line to <p> in php

Question

I currently have a lot of jokes in a database that are formated with nl2br() which produces...

This is just dummy text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
<br /><br />
Vestibulum gravida justo in arcu mattis lacinia. Mauris aliquet mi quis diam euismod blandit ultricies ac lacus.
<br /><br />
Aliquam erat volutpat. Donec sed nisi ac velit viverra hendrerit.
<br />
Praesent molestie augue ligula, quis accumsan libero.

I need a php function that rather convert <br /><br /> into a <p></p> and if there is only 1 <br /> then leave it alone. Also trim any whitespace

So the end result would be...

<p>This is just dummy text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</p>
<p>Vestibulum gravida justo in arcu mattis lacinia. Mauris aliquet mi quis diam euismod blandit ultricies ac lacus. </p>
Aliquam erat volutpat. Donec sed nisi ac velit viverra hendrerit.<br />
Praesent molestie augue ligula, quis accumsan libero.

can someone point me in the right direction or give me an simple function that does this? thanks

Coupe

You want to trim each row? – Delaryd

Answer 1

Use PHP's string replace function to replace all <br /><br /> with </p><p>. http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php

Sample Code:

$stringWithBRs = nl2br($originalString)
$stringWithPs = str_replace("<br /><br />", "</p>\n<p>", $stringWithBRs);
$stringWithPs = "<p>" . $stringWithPs . "</p>";

Or, you can use the following code without even calling the nl2br() function.

$stringWithPs = str_replace("\n\n", "</p>\n<p>", $originalString);
$stringWithPs = "<p>" . $stringWithPs . "</p>";

Exhilaration

he wants to put string into <p> tags =) – Fennelly

Yea, its the same thing. He can replace all the <br /><br /> with </p><p> and then wrap the whole text with a <p> and `<\p> – Exhilaration

Answer 2

Simply direct convert the original string:

$text=str_replace("<br /><br />", "</p><p>", $original_string);

And in HTML, somewhere like this:

<p>
 <?php echo $text; ?>
</p>

Broadus

Answer 3

A one-liner:

$sNewString = implode('</p><p>',explode('<br /><br />', nl2br($sOriginalString)))

Explanation:

1. Convert line breaks to br's
2. Split string into array by these br's
3. Glue the array back to a string by sticking P tags between each array item

Highboy

Answer 4

<?php
   function nl2p($string = '') {
        $array = explode("\n", $string);
        $content = '';
        foreach ($array as $str) {
            $content .= "<p>" . $str . "</p>";
        }
        return $content;
    }

echo nl2p($content);

Breast

Answer 5

Based on the previous answers, my code which generates the correct html with the p tags enclosed:

$text = nl2br($text);
$text = trim(preg_replace('/\s\s+/', ' ', $text));
$text = str_replace("<br /> <br />", "<br /><br />", $text);      
$text = implode('</p><p>',explode('<br /><br />', $text));
$text = '<p>'.$text.'</p>';

Vogeley

Answer 6

$new = '';
foreach(explode("\n<br /><br />\n", $text) as $p) // split by double newlines
    $new.= "<p>$p</p>\n"; // and convert each part to a paragraph


// or if you want to keep it in a single line
$new = join(array_map(function($p){return "<p>$p</p>\n";}, explode("\n<br /><br />\n", $text)));

Washedout

Answer 7

Try it

$old_string = preg_replace("/[\r\n]/","</p><p>",$old_string);
$new_string = "<p>" . $old_string . "</p>";
echo $new_string;

Herbert