Heredocs, print_r() and newline "\n" and fnmatch() - curious failures ...

This code is 95% cut and paste from the PHP manual examples - the Types/Strings/Heredocs section and the Filesystem/fnmatch pages. There are actually two questions here - I have combined the code into one test file ... the strings in the code contain the questions .. at the end I have inserted the output I get from the code - identical in Firefox and IE8 (so it's not browser related), and on my desktop as well as my laptop (so it's not a machine quirk). The setup is Xammplite Win32-1.7.1 with PHP 5.2.9 and Apache 2.2.11 on both WinXP-SP3 installs. I tried Xammp Win32-1.7.3 with the same results. Then I tried installing Apache and PHP and MySQL individually, and got the same ... Aside from the issue here, I also was unable to get imagick and xdebug running on the same installation - it was one or the other. imagick's readfile() caused Apache to baulk on PHP5.3.3, so I returned to a fresh Xammplite setup. Same results. I have spent many hours with this - I would appreciate some insight .. Question 1 : how to get the newline functioning ....? even print_r() output is not 'newlined' as it should be. Also note the \n is missing between the " " in the output text of the second test! Question 2 : fnmatch() is an internal function (ie built in to PHP, yet get_defined_functions() does not find it. Perhaps there are others also missing, I haven't done a check - could it be a compile error in Xammplite's PHP binaries? ----------------------------------------------------------------- heredoctest.php = the // comments are not in the actual file ... ----------------------------------------------------------------- <?php $str = <<<EOD Example of string spanning multiple lines using heredoc syntax. (this code cut and paste from the PHP manual examples ... it just will not work ...! EOD;

echo $str . "\n";    //echoes the string, fails on newlines in heredoc

// content and in this newline /* More complex example, with variables. */ class foo {

    var $foo;
    var $bar;

    function foo()
    {
        $this->foo = 'Foo';
        $this->bar = array('Bar1', 'Bar2', 'Bar3');
    }

} $foo = new foo(); $name = 'MyName'; echo <<<EOT My name is "$name". I am printing some $foo->foo. Now, I am printing some {$foo->bar[1]}. This should print a capital 'A': \x41 EOT; // again no newlines on direct heredoc echo ... echo <<<HDOC a second test for newlines - "\n" - can't find what is required to get this to work - have tried everything in the PHP Manual - still nothing - amazingly even Heredocs does not work. Tried this on two machines - both running Xammplite 1.7.1. Also tried installing PHP5.3.3 - and Newdocs doesn't work either. Any ideas? HDOC; //note the n gets escaped, but no actual newline occurs in the output // and the " " gets left in the output! /* And for good measure, here is another bit of frustration - also code copied directly from the manual ... 'fnmatch' is an internal function - yet PHP can't find it ... */ echo "some form of gray ...\n ... or grey"; // no newline in output if (fnmatch("*gr[ae]y", $color)) { // function undefined, dies echo "some form of gray ...\n ... or grey"; } ?> ----------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the output: - the line breaks are non-existent - here, of course the wrapping is imposed by the mail client editor, but in the browser it just it all just runs together .. most curious, very frustrating. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Example of string spanning multiple lines using heredoc syntax. (this code cut and paste from the PHP manual examples ... it just will not work ...! My name is "MyName". I am printing some Foo. Now, I am printing some Bar2. This should print a capital 'A': Aa second test for newlines - " " - can't find what is required to get this to work - have tried everything in the PHP Manual - still nothing - amazingly even Heredocs does not work. Tried this on two machines - both running Xammplite 1.7.1. Also tried installing PHP5.3.3 - and Newdocs doesn't work either. Any ideas?some form of gray ... ... or grey Fatal error: Call to undefined function fnmatch() in C:\xammplite\htdocs\heredoctest.php on line 47