PHP str_replace function problem

[chrisalviola]

I have this PHP code to edit all HTML text to be displayed so that it won't appear as HTML but as standard text.

<?php
function htmlformat($sinput){

$newphrase = str_replace("<", "&lt;", $sinput);
$newphrase = str_replace(">", "&gt;", $newphrase);
$newphrase = str_replace(chr(13),"<br>",$newphrase);
$newphrase = str_replace(chr(34), "&quot;", $newphrase);
$newphrase = str_replace(chr(32), "&nbsp;",$newphrase);$newphrase=str_replace("","<font color=red>",$newphrase);

$newphrase=str_replace("","</font>",$newphrase);

$newphrase=str_replace("","<img src=",$newphrase);

$newphrase=str_replace("",">",$newphrase);return $newphrase;
}
?>the problem is this part of the code

$newphrase = str_replace(chr(32), "&nbsp;",$newphrase);it only replace the single spaces with &nbsp;
but what about multiple spaces?
when I have 2 more spaces on the text it can't seem to replace it with &nbsp;

 

[mfb]

I can't reproduce that problem, works fine for me:

$newphrase = "a  b";
$newphrase = str_replace(chr(32), " ",$newphrase);
              
echo $newphrase;

a&nbsp;&nbsp;b

If you use this as HTML code then a browser will convert these &nbsp; back to spaces and then display only one. If you want to avoid that, use "&amp;nbsp;".

 

[newjerseyrunner]

... just curious, are you aware of the strip_tags() function?

 

[hmmm27]

Sometime in the last nine'n'half years he/she may have figured it out

 

[mfb]

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