jammin — Sat, 17 May 2003 03:30:59 +0000

ahhh... ok i thought maybe it would output to html when it was parsed. thanks.

andy206uk — Thu, 15 May 2003 08:25:50 +0000

Quote: It will work in the HTML source, but not in the displayed HTML. Of course Andy's example is missing a closing tag, lol.

True... but then, so was the original example!

Basically the puts the line break in the html, so when the page is viewed in a web browser your content will go to the next line. the /n will put a linebreak in the code so it will split the source code (ie what you see when you go to "view source") into multiple lines

if you don't put a /n after the the source will look like

blah blah blah<br>blah blah blah<br>blah blah blah<br>'

with the /n it will look like:

blah blah blah<br>
blah blah blah<br>
blah blah blah<br>

Suzanne — Wed, 14 May 2003 23:32:54 +0000

It will work in the HTML source, but not in the displayed HTML. Of course Andy's example is missing a closing tag, lol.

\r\n works for text areas, et cetera.

You want the HTML to look like this:

text
text
text

???

jammin — Wed, 14 May 2003 22:14:58 +0000

thanks, but i was wondering about the \n thingy, so it just doesnt work when outputting to html?

dk01 — Wed, 14 May 2003 13:29:03 +0000

Yeah if you meant in the browser then look at andy's example and forget mine. I thought you meant when it actually prints to the html source.
-dk

andy206uk — Wed, 14 May 2003 12:15:40 +0000

do you mean it wont do a newline when you display it in a browser?

Thats cos its html! you need a

<?php
$filename = 'test.txt';
$handle = fopen($filename, 'r');
while(!feof($handle))
{
     $text= fgets($handle);
    echo \"<a href=\\"$text\\">\";
    echo $text;
    echo \"<br>\";
}

fclose($handle);
?>

dk01 — Wed, 14 May 2003 06:56:44 +0000

Are you on a mac or unix machine?
It matters and actually windows newlines are \r\n.
Anyways for a solution go to this page:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php
and look at the comment by eightraks at linux-foo dot com
-dk

jammin — Wed, 14 May 2003 05:10:44 +0000

thanks, but it still doesnt work. it wont put out a new line.

Busy — Wed, 14 May 2003 04:50:15 +0000

just put the \n where you want the newline to go, is better in a quoted or bracketed section
echo "\n"; or you can add it before the $text (second line), can even make it one whole line
echo "\n$text";

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