tab doesn't function - please help

[Anon]

Hi all,

Please, i've a problem with using "\t" - tab escape code.

When i run this code:

<?php
echo 'I am trying to include at this point: \n a newline';
?>

the text after \n has been printed on the same line.
And the same problem i have with \t

Can you help me?
Thank you very much.

Kings regards,
Miles

[znouza]

try this

<?php
echo '<pre>I am trying to include at this point: \n a newline</pre>';
?>

until you didn't specify <pre> tags, HTML will interprets it as control sequence

• or try to run that script from command line (php script.php) and see the output

[miyake]

The problem lies in the single quotes, try enclosing the string with double quotes.

<?php
echo "I am trying to include at this point: \n a newline";
?>

That should work just fine...php doesn't parse anything enclosed in single quotes.

[Anon]

Tom, thanks a lot. But can you tell me why it's not describe in the manual?

Thank you again. Miles

[znouza]

because it's a common html issue