Weird new lines!

I'm having a problem getting my data to display correctly to go into a googlemap field.

My problem is this sentence:

Worthington Manor

A seventeenth century...<br />

The information comes from a textbox which is then put into the database - we use the following encoding things on it:
$description = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc,trim(stripslashes(strip_tags($_POST['building_description']))));

The field in the database is a varchar.

When it comes to echoing it out on the page we do the folowing - as with the map you can't havw any specialcharacters or new lines. it just needs to be a plain sentence!

ShortenText2(removeliteral($row["description"]));

this displays the sentence I showed you above - which breaks my javascript.

The two functions I have are

PHP Code:

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function removeliteral($input) {

$placeholders = array('\n', '\r', '\t', '\v', '\f', '\\', '\$', '\"', '#', '$', '%', '&', '@', '.', '?', '£', '+', '=', '-', '_', '?', '\\', '\'', '"', '<br />', '<br>', '&#xd;');
$replacevalues = array('');
$input = str_replace($placeholders, $replacevalues, $input);
         
 return $input;        

}

and 

 function ShortenText2($text) {
        // number of characters to display
        $chars = 50;
        $text = $text." ";
        $text = substr($text,0,$chars);
        $text = substr($text,0,strrpos($text,' '));
        $text = $text."...";
        return $text;
 } 


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I've removed the \n but it still says its on a new line!

the code I'm using to echo this out is the following:
echo $description[$x];

I just dont understyand!


We put the sentence into an html encoder and it says there is a new line there - but I removed it!

Any help would be really greatl appreciated!!

Please make use of &#091;PHP] tags, as explained here :

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=429282

As to your question :

I'd make use of Regular expressions here

\n is not the only new line character. There is also \r and \r\n. Are you sure your encoding isn't using one of those instead?