RE: [PHP-DB] Quick Question: Line Breaks

On 09 January 2004 03:58, Jacob Hackamack wrote: > Hello, > > I have a couple of quick questions. When I execute this code on my > php page (I know that the .PSD image isn¹t web ready, but Safari does > what I need it to do :) ) it displays the entire source as one line. > Is there anyway to have it be broken. I have read places (internet > sites) that say that the following solutions might work: > echo OE¹;\n\n > echo OE¹\n\n ; > echo OE\n\n¹; > > None of them seem to work, am I doing something wrong? > > > echo '<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; > charset=utf-8">'; echo '<html>'; > echo '<head>'; > echo '<title>'; > echo 'FilmCanister Desktops'; > echo '</title>'; > echo '</head>'; > echo '<body>'; > echo '<center>'; > echo '<img src="images/Rotating.psd">'; > echo '<h2>'; > echo 'Coming Soon....Desktop Pictures (2.83 GB Worth)</h2>'; echo > '</center>'; echo '</body>'; > echo '</html>'; The reason you have it all on one line is because you haven't echoed any newlines. You have a number of options to do this. As there is no variable interpolation anywhere in there, you could just break out of PHP and do it as straight HTML: ... ?> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <html> <head> <title> FilmCanister Desktops </title> </head> <body> <center> <img src="images/Rotating.psd"> <h2> Coming Soon....Desktop Pictures (2.83 GB Worth)</h2> </center> </body> </html> <?php ... Or you could echo the whole thing in one go (since you can have newlines in a PHP string): echo '<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <html> <head> ... </body> </html> '; If you plan to have variables in there at some point, you can either use <?php echo $var ?> segments, or use a heredoc: echo <<<END <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <html> <head> <body> <center> <img src="images/$name.psd"> ... </body> </html> END; or, again, you could use a multi-line string -- but this time double-quoted to give interpolation (but note that you now have to escape all your embedded double quotes): echo " <meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\"> <html> <head> <body> <center> <img src=\"images/$name.psd\"> ... </body> </html> "; Which route you choose is pretty much personal taste -- personally, if I have a page that's mostly straight HTML with not much PHP code, I write it as HTML with embedded PHP snippets, but I know some people think that looks weird or ugly...! Cheers! Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services, JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom Email: m.ford@leedsmet.ac.uk Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211