How to remove multiple empty lines (spaces) entered by user

[Tieckus]

Script URL: http://gabsal.100webspace.net/testingbook/gbook.php
Version of script: 143
Hosting company: http://www.100webspace.com/
URL of phpinfo.php: http://gabsal.100webspace.net/testingbook/phpinfo.php
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Hi! I have 2 questions, (maybe they are the same):

Q1:
I would like to know if there is a way to avoid a user entering multiple empty lines. In other words: if a user enters something like this:

test







test

I would like to change it into this (turn n empty lines (spaces) into just one):

test

test

Q2:
Another problem is the following: If a user enters a lot of empty lines between words (see example here: http://gabsal.100webspace.net/testingbook/ ) Then a strange < br> tag appears and the end of the comments became bold (in the example I ONLY entered the word "test" at the first line and again the word "test" at the last line). Can that be avoided?


Thanks for your help.

[Maybe a way to avoid these problems would be to set a maximum number of characters that a user can enter in the text field, then that would refrain the user from doing this stupid input. If that is so, do you know how that can be accomplished?]

(Sorry if my questions look too naive; I am a php newbee and my mother tongue is not english!)

[Klemen]

So you finally were able to login to the forum

Try opening gbook.php in a plain text editor (Notepad) and change lines 620 to 623 from

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$comments = str_replace("\r\n","<br>",$comments);
$comments = str_replace("\n","<br>",$comments);
$comments = str_replace("\r","<br>",$comments);
$comments = wordwrap($comments,$settings['max_word'],' ',1);

to this:

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$comments = wordwrap($comments,$settings['max_word'],' ',1);
$comments = preg_replace('/(\n|\r)+/','<br>',$comments);

Haven't really tested it so please come back and say if it worked or not.

I think I'll include this in the next version by default.

[Tieckus]

It works great! Thanks a lot!
(beyond my wildest expectations )

(By the way, I was not able to log into the forum using Firefox; I managed to login at last the first time I tried with Internet Explorer)

Thank you again!