Re: Re: echo?

Very Interesting - '\n' doesn't work, but "\n" does work. "Steve Staples" <sstaples@mnsi.net> wrote in message news:1300883645.5100.973.camel@webdev01... > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 08:28 -0400, Jim Giner wrote: >> I am outputting to a <textarea> on an html page. A <br> doesn't work, >> nor >> does \n, hence the &#13&#10. 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 >> > >> > -- >> > Paul M. Foster >> > http://noferblatz.com >> > http://quillandmouse.com >> >> >> > > Jim > > with the \n, it does work in a textarea. you must put the \n inside > the "", so: > > $q = 'select * from director_records '; > $qrslt = mysql_query($q); > $rows = mysql_num_rows($qrslt); > for ($i = 0; $i < $rows; $i++) > { > $row = mysql_fetch_array($qrslt); > echo ($i + 1) .'-'. $row['userid']; > if ($row['user_priv'] != "") > echo ' ('. $row['user_priv'] .')'; > echo "\n"; > } > > > give that a try > >