I have code like this:
<?php
echo '<script type="text/javascript">';
echo 'var out="'.$txt.'";';
echo '</script>';
?>
Where $txt is a PHP variable that can contain newlines like this:
line1
line2 hello world
Which would end up like this:
var out="line1
line2 hello world";
Which will cause a Javascript error, of course.
What is the best way to handle this? The out variable will be used in a HTML textarea, so I don't think it can be parsed into <br>
You can use
str_replace
to convert line breaks into a different character (in this case, perhaps a space, but it depends how you want the output to show up)I tried this and it worked well.
I am using PHP 5.3
should replace newlines. Don't do it this way.
This is a naïve implementation of string escaping for JavaScript. As you're actually trying to format a string for use in JavaScript, a much better solution would be to use
json_encode
:json_encode
will correctly escape special characters in strings, such as quotes, tabs, form feeds, and other special unicode characters. It will also perform all the correct escaping for converting objects, arrays, numbers, and booleans.Most of these don't work for me. Normally, I'd use json_encode like
But for a quick fix you can just break a line like this: Pay attention to the double quotes.
. . .
you can add a
\
at the end of a line to create a multi line StringResult: