Replace excess whitespaces and line-breaks with PHP?

Question

$string = \"My    text       has so    much   whitespace    




Plenty of    spaces  and            tabs\";

echo preg_replace(\"/\\s\\s+/\", \" \", $string);
         


        

Answer 1

this would COMPLETELY MINIFY the entire string (such as a large blog article) yet preserving all HTML tags in place.

$email_body = str_replace(PHP_EOL, ' ', $email_body);
    //PHP_EOL = PHP_End_Of_Line - would remove new lines too
$email_body = preg_replace('/[\r\n]+/', "\n", $email_body);
$email_body = preg_replace('/[ \t]+/', ' ', $email_body);