Re: Re: echo?
| From: | Jim Giner | Date: | Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:28:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: echo? | ||
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I am outputting to a <textarea> on an html page. A <br> doesn't work, nor
does \n, hence the 
. Of course, if I don't need the & then I've
just saved two keystrokes. :) Also - I do believe I tried ($i+1) and that
didn't work either.
"Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote in message
news:20110323034621.GO1538@quillandmouse.com...
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:50:54PM -0400, Jim Giner wrote:
>
>> Yes - it is J and I. I tried using $i+1 in the echo originally but it
>> wouldn't run. That's why I created $j.
>
> Yes, the substitution creates a syntax error unless surrounded by
> parentheses or the like.
>
>> And just what is wrong with the old cr/lf sequence? How would you have
>> done
>> it?
>
> You're using HTML-encoded entities for 0x0d and 0x0a. You can simply
> use 0x0d and 0x0a instead. If you're running this in a web context, you
> should use "<br/>" instead of CRLF. At the command line, I'm not
> familiar with running PHP on Windows. In *nix environments, it's enough
> to use "\n", just as they do in C. It might even work in Windows; I
> don't know. If not, you should be able to use "\r\n". You can also try
> the constant PHP_EOL, which is supposed to handle newlines in a
> cross-platform way.
>
> Paul
>
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> Paul M. Foster
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