Posted by Oli Filth on 10/18/05 17:04

Serge Wautier wrote:
> Env.: PHP 4.4.0 / IIS 5.1 / XP Pro
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm writing a PHP page which contains plain text.
> Oddly enough, it there is a CRLF right after a php tag, this CRLF is eaten
> and doesn't appear on the client side.
>
> e.g.:
> <?php header('Content-type: text/plain') ?>
> a:<?php whatever(); ?>
> b:123
> c:456
>
> This script appear at the client as:
> a:whateverb:123
> c:456
>
> instead of :
>
> a:whatever
> b:123
> c:456
>
> I noticed that adding a 2nd CRLF is a workaround since one CRLF then appears
> at the client side. Adding any character (such as a space) between the php
> tag and the crlf also preserves the CRLF.
> However, I'd like to understand what happens. Is there a way to tell PHP to
> preserve my CRLFs ?
>

http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.using.php#faq.using.newlines

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Oli

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