I'm simply experimenting with PHP to prepare me for some upcoming projects and I've encountered a string which won't have <br />
inserted into it even though it is a multi-line string.
The code is simple PHP (which I've enclosed in simple html tags)
$ping = passthru('ping www.google.com');
$ping = htmlspecialchars_decode($ping);
$ping = strip_tags($ping);
$ping = nl2br($ping);
echo $ping;
The result is a multi-line string but without any <br />
tags added, however, the page source shows the result as a mutli-line string so there's definitely multiple lines there but nl2br()
is not doing anything.
Page source (which has mysteriously added extra whitespace lines when I pasted it in here)
<html>
<head>
<title>Derp</title>
</head>
<body><p>
Pinging www.l.google.com [209.85.227.147] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 209.85.227.147: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=48
Reply from 209.85.227.147: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=48
Reply from 209.85.227.147: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=48
Reply from 209.85.227.147: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=48
Ping statistics for 209.85.227.147:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 28ms, Maximum = 44ms, Average = 35ms
</p>
</body>
</html>
And the actual string shown on the webpage:
Pinging www.l.google.com [209.85.227.147] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 209.85.227.147: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=48 Reply from 209.85.227.147: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=48 Reply from 209.85.227.147: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=48 Reply from 209.85.227.147: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=48 Ping statistics for 209.85.227.147: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 28ms, Maximum = 31ms, Average = 29ms
After extensive Googling all I can find is people who are not using nl2br()
when they should be
What am I missing here?