HTML in a Javascript variable

[myOtherHandle]

Hi.

I have a variable: var html;

I need to put some HTML formatted text into that variable using PHP.

So: var html = '".somephpvariable."';

The problem is that the HTML from the php isn't on one line so I get an error saying that the string isn't terminated...

How can I get this to work?

 

[manarth]

you could use a PHP string replacement to replace carriage returns with <br> tags (or simply to remove them if they're not necessary).

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[myOtherHandle]

That's the problem. I'm using a layered popup to let the user edit some text on a page.

If I remove these the text in the <textarea> box will look like a mess.

 

[manarth]

In that case, use PHP string replace to replace a line break with \n. This code takes advantages of the difference in PHP between single quotes and double quotes to do the replacement.

<?php
  [green]// where y is your multiline data[/green]
  z = str_replace("[blue]\n[/blue]", '[blue]\n[/blue]', y);

  echo('[blue]<script type="text/javascript">[/blue]');
  echo('[blue]  var foo = "[/blue]'.z.'[blue]";[/blue]');
  echo('[blue]</script>[/blue]');
?>

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[myOtherHandle]

I ended up with:
$data = str_replace(chr(10), '\n', str_replace(chr(13), '\r', ($row['dbfield'])));

and it seems to work.

Thanks for the help!