replace br tag from a string in php

Question

I have the following string. I want to replace the line break with /n

Good FRIENDS are hard to find,
 harder to leave,


        

Answer 1

Use str_replace

$text = str_replace("
", "\n", $text);

If there is actually a line break within the
tag as in your sample code, try this:

$text = preg_replace("//", "\n", $text);