use html <br> instead of \n
or
echo nl2br("This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as
well.");
Best Wishes
Paul Roberts
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From: "Martin Purdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [PHP] Beginners question
How do you use the output on a webpage then?
Martin
"Leif K-Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i en meddelelse
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> My guess is that the new lines are there, but since you're (most likely)
> outputting HTML, you don't see them. Take at look at the br HTML tag.
>
> Martin Purdy wrote:
>
> >Hi everybody
> >
> >I am totally new to PHP, and I have a problem with the Print statement.
> >When I send a newline using "\n" nothing happens.
> >
> >I cannot get any linebreaks into my code.
> >
> >The following line is copied from the PHP Manual, and is sopposed to
> give me
> >the text split into 3 lines, but they come out as one line.
> >
> > echo "This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as
> >well.";
> >
> >Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?
> >
> >Martin Purdy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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