I agree on the regex front. It seems to have been the fix for loads of stuff I've asked on here.

Also (hug) the extra braces worked!

Ah, thought you might have done. However, it shouldn't be necessary - the line breaks shouldn't get added at all - content between code isn't supposed to be changed (excluding font/colour formatting).

Dunno what the cause is though - I did go look at the code Matt referred to and it's far too much effort trying to decipher it all, especially as tired as I currently am.

$sold1 = $row[sold];
if ($sold1 == yes){
$soldstring .= "<img alt=\"sold\" src=\"./photos/{$row[thumb]}\" />"; }
else {
$soldstring .= "<img alt=\"notsold\" src=\"./photos/{$row[thumb]}\" />"; }

" . $soldstring . "

$sold1 = $row[sold];

if ($sold1 == yes){

$soldstring = "<img alt=\"sold\" src=\"./photos/{$row[thumb]}\" />"; }

else {

$soldstring = "<img alt=\"notsold\" src=\"./photos/{$row[thumb]}\" />"; }

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