HTML Form Data will not break

[Anon]

I have a situation where I enter text into an HTML form and want to insert the data into text file. When I try to write the data to the text file using fwrite or fputs, it does not insert a line break after the line. I use an array to insert the data in the middle of the form. In other words, I just need an automatic line break at the end of the data in the text form and the break is not happening. It is driving me nuts. I tried PHP functions like nl2br, but nothing is working.

Any ideas?

[joeywoodbury]

My knowledge is just enough to be dangerous, but you can try a /n, or /r for a line break. I belive that /r should work. Give it a try.

[Anon]

Cool. I will try /r. I tried /n, but that did not work. The /n was just written to the file as well.

Thanks, I will try it now and let you know if it doesn't work.

Bruce

[Anon]

I tried. /r did not work either.

[Anon]

can you put some of the code up so that I can take a look at it?

[Anon]

Or better yet, try \r\n - backslashes not forward slashes.

PS: This only makes sense on a Windows machine.

[Anon]

just use \n
you had the slash facing the wrong way

imo, \n is better than \n\r since it is more standard and will cause less problems if you try and cross platforms with this text file

[Anon]

Thank you, everyone. \n worked. My problem was that it just did not show in my Notepad app when I checked the results.

Bruce