you can use the preg_replace function to compress a given string and remove spaces and blank lines from the string.
The use of the function is as given below:
preg_replace(”/(^[\r\n]*|[\r\n]+)[\s\t]*[\r\n]+/”, “\n”, $string);
where “$string” is the string you want to remove the spaces and blank lines from.
if in case the above code doesn’t work properly you can use the below given user-defined function :
The Function:
function my_preg_rep($content_area){
$content_area=preg_replace(”/[\r\n]*/”, “”, $content_area);
$content_area=preg_replace(”/[\r\n]+/”, “”, $content_area);
return $content_area;
}
Code :
echo my_preg_rep(addslashes($content_area));
