What does this mean or do?

turansky

Hello,

I'm just starting to read this php book and some of the examples they show have this at the end of a line? What does it mean or do?

"\n"

Thank you
Kent

seanpaulcail

it's php for new line

seby

yeah pretty much like a in html

turansky

Would there be an advantage to using the \n over the or is it just a preference?

Thank you

xblue

this might have been confusing...

If you want a new line to be displayed in the browser, you need .

The new line \n is ignored by browsers, it only shows up in plain text document, e.g. in a plain text email or when you look at the source code of an html file.

Digimatt

Have you ever viewed the source of a Web site and the entire page is one very long line of code?

\n is used to format your HTML document in a text editor or viewer. formats the HTML for the browser.

Example

<?
echo "big ";
echo "dog";
?>

If you view the source (in your browser) on this, you would see:

big dog

Example 2

<?
echo "big \n";
echo "dog";
?>

If you view the source (in your browser) on this, you would see:

big 
dog