PHP - str_replace（）;

Question

I'm entering news on my website through a form. While adding news or editing it, or get replaced with a br.

Now I still have an issue, when I write for example "I've" it will print out as I\'ve.

First question, is this caused due to mysql_real_escape_string(); ? Second question, how can I replace multiple matches with diffirent tags ?

Right now I have something like this:

$order = array("'", "\'");
$replace = "´";
$order = array("
", "
", "");
$replace = "<br />";
$string = $news;
$insert = str_replace($order, $replace, $string);

I'm almost sure this is not the correct way to do it because they are all assigned to the same variables,.. Could someone point me in the right direction please ?

Edit: Although this works, am I 'allowed' to code it like this ?

Edit: Thank you all for your answers, problem is fixed now ! :)

Answer 1

You can use arrays as input for str_replace():

$order = array("'", "\'","
", "
", "");
$replace = array("&acute;","&acute;","<br />","<br />","<br />");
$string = $news;
$insert = str_replace($order, $replace, $string);

And yes, the escaped \' are likely from your database code. Use stripslashes() to remove them.