Posted by Michael on 05/28/07 05:17

On May 27, 8:20 pm, Chris Hope <blackh...@electrictoolbox.com> wrote:
> Michael wrote:
> > On May 27, 8:05 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> >> Michael wrote:
> >> > 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>") ?
>
> >> It works fine. It generates a nl character, just as you asked it to.
> >> Look at your source code - you'll see the butline break.
>
> >> If you want an HTML <br> or xthtml <br />, you need to code them
> >> yourself. PHP does not convert for you.
>
> > Thanks for your reply. Yes, I looked at the source code, but no <br>,
> > all I get is a new line of white space, which as we know is ignored by
> > the browser.
>
> That's correct. You didn't ask PHP to write a <br> tag. You asked PHP to
> write a newline break, which is exactly what it did.
>
> So yes, your question 2) is what you would need to do, although your
> question should read like this:
>
> 2. What is the prescribed way of inserting an *html* *newline* break*
> *tag* into a PHP string? (Could it be printf("Hello world! <br>") ?
>
> There is also the nl2br() function which converts "\n" to "<br />\n"
> should you need to automatically need to do this with a string.
>
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Thank you all for your help. I now understand all of this a bit
better.

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