weird things

I posted the question earlier about the variables in the select statement
(still doesn't work) I just noticed something else, \n does not work either.
Ex.
<?php echo("this is line 1\n");
echo("this is line 2\n");
?>
the output however looks like this:
this is line 1 this is line 2

Is this some configuration issue?
I am using Win2K Pro with the XAMPP package v 1.3
php 4.3.4
apache 2.0.48

any help clearing up this mystery would be greatly appreciated so I can get
on learning php.

TIA,
jrg

"jg" <jrg@nospam-weirdcat.com> wrote in message
news:%3_7c.413$eh7.262@news01.roc.ny...
> I posted the question earlier about the variables in the select statement
> (still doesn't work) I just noticed something else, \n does not work
either.
> Ex.
> <?php echo("this is line 1\n");
>  echo("this is line 2\n");
> ?>
> the output however looks like this:
>  this is line 1 this is line 2
>
> Is this some configuration issue?
> I am using Win2K Pro with the XAMPP package v 1.3
> php 4.3.4
> apache 2.0.48
>
> any help clearing up this mystery would be greatly appreciated so I can
get
> on learning php.
>
> TIA,
> jrg
>
>
>

/n (new line) will only work for raw output - like PHP command line.
It will also work if you "view source" in notepad or something.

But,  \n means nothing to a browser that is looking for HTML tags. It will
be treated as a blank space (I think)
Use the HTML break <br>

*** jg wrote/escribió (Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:01:47 GMT):
> <?php echo("this is line 1\n");
>  echo("this is line 2\n");
> ?>
> the output however looks like this:
>  this is line 1 this is line 2
>
> Is this some configuration issue?

HTML is defined that way: carriage returns are ignored. If you want to
convert carriage returns into HTML tags you need nl2br().


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Thanks Nikola, that's what I've been doing but couldn't figure out why the
examples from the manual won't work for me.

jrg

<Nikola Tesla> wrote in message news:qM6dnckL1LAM7f3dRVn-uw@comcast.com...
>
> "jg" <jrg@nospam-weirdcat.com> wrote in message
> news:%3_7c.413$eh7.262@news01.roc.ny... 
statement 
> either. 
> get 
>
> /n (new line) will only work for raw output - like PHP command line.
> It will also work if you "view source" in notepad or something.
>
> But,  \n means nothing to a browser that is looking for HTML tags. It will
> be treated as a blank space (I think)
> Use the HTML break <br>
>
>
>