Re: Beginners question

use html <br> instead of \n or echo nl2br("This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as well."); Best Wishes Paul Roberts mail@paul-roberts.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Purdy" <martin@purdy.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 8:16 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Beginners question How do you use the output on a webpage then? Martin "Leif K-Brooks" <eurleif@buyer-brokerage.com> skrev i en meddelelse news:3E469B6C.4000807@buyer-brokerage.com... > My guess is that the new lines are there, but since you're (most likely) > outputting HTML, you don't see them. Take at look at the br HTML tag. > > Martin Purdy wrote: > > >Hi everybody > > > >I am totally new to PHP, and I have a problem with the Print statement. > >When I send a newline using "\n" nothing happens. > > > >I cannot get any linebreaks into my code. > > > >The following line is copied from the PHP Manual, and is sopposed to > give me > >the text split into 3 lines, but they come out as one line. > > > > echo "This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as > >well."; > > > >Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? > > > >Martin Purdy > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > The above message is encrypted with double rot13 encoding. Any > unauthorized attempt to decrypt it will be prosecuted to the full extent > of the law. > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php