New line in echo in PHP?

Question

Having finally got Apache and PHP, and a number of virtual
sites set up, I tried
David's file to print the date, and when it worked I started
to experiment. I
am starting to get the hang of it, but I can't get the
newline to work. It
would appear to me that the following test program should
have two new lines,
but they are both ignored.
<?php
echo "Time is ", date('H:i'), " on ", date(' F jS, Y'),"\n";
echo "\nThis should be on a new line";
?>
The page incorporating these lines can be seen at
http://www.corybas.com/Phptest2.php
Clancy

Answer 1

It doesn't when you see it in a browser. If you are going to
look at the
rendering in a browser, you need to use HTML, e.g.,
<?php echo 'Time is '.date('H:i').' on '.date("F jS,
Y').'<br />'; ?>
Using the \n\r combo, or any variant, will only show those
new lines when
you see the printed page, or the element is sent in an email.
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"Clancy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Joe Makowiec <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>><p><?php echo 'Time is ' . date('H:i') . '
on ' . date(' F jS, Y'); ?>
>></p>
>><p><?php echo 'This should be on a new
line'; ?> </p>
>>
>>PHP is used to create dynamic content; it's up to
you, the web
>>developer, to provide the html structure to display
that content.
>
> So although an escape sequence for \n is defined it
doesn't actually do
> anything?
>
>
> Clancy