Re: Re: New to PHP question

Frank Stanovcak wrote: > "Don Collier" <dcollier@collierclan.com> wrote in message > news:4980AC7E.2080809@collierclan.com... >> I am just learning PHP from the O'Reilly "Learning PHP 5" book and I have a >> question regarding the formatting of text. Actually it is a couple of >> questions. >> >> First, when I use the \n and run the script from the command line it works >> great. When I run the same code in a browser it does not put the newline >> in and the text runs together. I know that I can use <br/> to do the same >> thing, but why is it this way? >> >> The second question is closely related to the first. When formatting text >> using printf the padding works great when running from the command line >> but not at all when in a browser. >> Here is the code that I am working with: >> >> <?php >> $hamburger = 4.95; >> $chocmilk = 1.95; >> $cola = .85; >> $subtotal = (2 * $hamburger) + $chocmilk + $cola; >> $tax = $subtotal * .075; >> $tip = $subtotal * .16; >> $total = $subtotal + $tip + $tax; >> print "Welcome to Chez Don.\n"; >> print "Here is your receipt:\n"; >> print "\n"; >> printf("%1d %9s \$%.2f\n", 2, 'Hamburger', ($hamburger * 2)); >> printf("%1d %9s \$%.2f\n", 1, 'Milkshake', 1.95); >> printf("%1d %9s \$%.2f\n", 1, 'Soda', .85); >> printf("%25s: \$%.2f\n",'Subtotal', $subtotal); >> printf("%25s: \$%.2f\n", 'Tax', $tax); >> printf("%25s: \$%.2f\n", 'Tip', $tip); >> printf("%25s: \$%.2f\n", 'Total', $total); >> ?> >> >> Thanks for the help everyone. > > It has specifically to do with how the browser renders the page. part of > the spec for rendering is that newlines are ignored, and the only way to get > a line to break in a browser window is with the use of <br>. As for the > padding this is the same issue. In Browswer rendering all white space > except the first one is ignored, and you have to use &nbsp; for aditionall > spaces. > You could always wrap things in a <pre>...</pre> or tell CSS to handle white-space: pre; where needed. http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/pr_text_white-space.asp > ie: 3 space would be ' &nbsp; ' or '&nbsp; &nbsp;' > > Hope that helps! > > Frank. > > > -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare