On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 09:51 +0200, Nick Balestra wrote: > Hello guys i am trying to figure out what is worng with thoose special > escaped character, like \n \t \r ... > > As i cannot make them working. The browser doesn't display them, but doesn't > eithr crate a new line, or else. > I am using them fro example like this: > > print: "this shoudl be on a line \nwhile this on a new line"; > > I've searched google and saw man people struggling with this, but apparently > not a clear answer to why....maybe is a stupid beginner question, but i would > just like to know. (Personally i solved for the moment by printing out <br> > or <pre>, but i would like to understand this. > > Cheers, Nick
By default, PHP sends out HTML headers. Browsers ignore extraneous white-space characters, and also new lines, carriage returns and tabs, converting them all to a single space character. If you view the source in your browser, you'll see the newlines, but in regular display, your text is treated as HTML. There is a function in PHP called nl2br, which accepts a string and returns the same one with all the newlines replaced with <br> automatically, which might be easier to use if your content is in a string. Otherwise, the only way to get new lines on your actual page is to either manually use <br> tags, put the text inside a <pre> block, or use CSS to preserve the white-space. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
