Re: Embedding foreach loops

On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 07:13 +0000, hessiess@hessiess.com wrote: > Do *NOT* get into the habit of outputting your HTML using echo or print > statements, it becomes unmaintainable very quickly, use a templating > language, ether with a framework(recomended) or standalone. > > You should learn the basics of HTML and CSS, go and read > http://htmldog.com/, btw to add a newline you need to use > "<br />". > > >> I am using the print function to display my html. I cannot get the > >> line return ( \n ) character to actually push the html onto the next > >> line, it just gets displayed instead. Should I be using echo? > > > > > > Allen, you off and running again? > > > > echo "blah.. \n"; //<-- this will print the literal 'blah.. ' > > and > > then a newline into your HTML *source code* > > echo 'blah.. \n'; //<-- this will print the literal 'blah.. \n' > > into > > your HTML *source code* > > > > IIRC print is the same as echo. That is not your apparent issue. > > > > Say if you are stuck again, and on what exactly. > > > > -John > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > *Or* you could use the heredoc syntax, which I'm quite a fan of. print <<<EOC <p>some content here</p> <p>content with a php $variable here</p> <p>this gets displayed after the extra new lines in the source</p> EOC; Still easy to maintain. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk