Posted by Michael on 05/28/07 02:29

I'm new to PHP.

I see that PHP supports the C printf function, and I've seen examples
like printf("Hello world!\n"); however the newline character \n
doesn't work - i.e., it does not generate an HTML <br>, which I would
have expected - what it does is generate a newline in the html
generated text, but since the browser ignores blank lines, this
feature appears useless for most applications.

>From this arises two questions:

1. I am misunderstanding something?

2. What is the prescribed way of inserting a newline into a PHP
string? (Could it be printf("Hello world! <br>") ?

Thanks,
M. McDonnell

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