Need Help

Hi, I am using PEAR and its template to create my Web Application. Now I have declared a vraible {var} in my master template. I hade used this to display som emessage in it. For example $this->var = 'my message'...It works fine in this case.Now similarly i want to display two messages in it like $this->var = 'my message' ."<br>".'message 2'. But this <br> does not works in it. It displays message like my message message2 I have also tried with /n but could not succeeded. So please help me what i should need to do in this case. Thanks Ali Imran Ahmad