Displaying TAB in a $string!

r4nd0mch4r

Hi, I have a bit of a problem.

I have a code:

for ($j = 0; $j <= $kolicina; $j++) 
{
    $string=$string." ".$date." ".$bla." ".$bla2;
}

HTML output is sth like this

string 10.10.2003 bla bla2

Now I would like to have and output with TAB instead of a space between the parts of a string.
I know that the tab is "\t" in PHP, but I don't know how to put it in there. I tried with

for ($j = 0; $j <= $kolicina; $j++) 
{
    $string=$string."\t".$date."\t".$bla."\t".$bla2;
}

but when I echo the $string, there are only spaces between the words.

tekky

$string = str_replace("\t",str_repeat('&nbsp;', 5), $string);

HTML doesnt understand TAB...

r4nd0mch4r

Thx m8! I did not know...

Now I have used your version, it works, but it's the same as before;

when I output the PHP $string to HTML, there are still only space between parts of string, not tabs.

The reason I need tabs to be between parts of string is that I want to copy this string later to an EXCEL document and it's a lot easier to do so by just copying the whole line of text than just copying one part after another.

groovything

Originally posted by r4nd0mch4r
Thx m8! I did not know...

Now I have used your version, it works, but it's the same as before;

when I output the PHP $string to HTML, there are still only space between parts of string, not tabs.

The reason I need tabs to be between parts of string is that I want to copy this string later to an EXCEL document and it's a lot easier to do so by just copying the whole line of text than just copying one part after another.

for html purposes, you could replace the tab with 4 nbsp;'s

or you could do it with css: replace it with "<p>" and add this to your stylesheet:

P { text-indent: 3em }

tekky

Originally posted by groovything
for html purposes, you could replace the tab with 4 nbsp;'s

or you could do it with css: replace it with "<p>" and add this to your stylesheet:

P { text-indent: 3em }

doh true, " " woul dbe the same as " " in HTML... fixing my statement above :/