PHP form inserting at the end of the text on each submission to MSSQL

Question

Hi everyone I had previously posted about a
getting inserted at the beginning of my text and we got that fixed. (here is my previous post with the code)

Answer 1

This should do it, matches <br>, <br/> or <br /> at the start or end:

preg_replace('#^<br(\s*/)?>|<br(\s*/)?>$#i', "\n", $str);

The tag is matched by: * Literal <br * Optional spaces followed by a forward slash

The | in the middle is used to denote an alternative condition (i.e. OR).

Edit

Instead of <br(\s*/)?> you can also write <br(\/|)> that you had before.

Edit 2

Multiple occurrences can be matched by just adding + behind each pattern:

preg_replace('#^<br(\/|)>+|<br(\/|)>+$#i', "\n", $str);