PHP write to file

[Anon]

Hi,
I am very new to php...after having read all of the manual I thought of learning y wiriting a simple guestbook ...

so I got the form..I got the php file which takes the entries and wrties to a single flat file....BUT this is where I have a problem..when I do the following:

fputs($out,"---\n"); //[]
fputs($out,"$name\t"); //[0]
fputs($out,"$email\t"); //[1]
fputs($out,"$homepage\t"); //[2]
fputs($out,"$radio out of 5\t"); //[3]
fputs($out,"$REMOTE_ADDR\t"); //[4]
fputs($out,"$comments\n"); //[5]
fputs($out,"\n");
fclose($out);

The \n does not seem to work at all...but the \t works fine....
the file i write to looks like:

---hello what a 3 out of 5 207.121.103.5 nice
day---hello what a 3 out of 5 207.121.103.5 nice
day---my name my email my homepage 2 out of 5 207.121.103.5 my comments

Any idea on what I am doing wrong.

Thanks
Wilfred

[daarius]

depends on the OS where PHP is ruuning. try this:
\n\r

this is using both new line and carriage return. this will make sure you get the NEW LINES!

also check that new line might be working but if you are viewing the result in a browser you might not see the effects. just check the source and you will see if there are new lines.

if there are, then simply use nl2br($data) when displaying the stuff in browser. this will automatically replace the new lines with <br>'s

Daarius...