line breaks in php

[Dutch_MaFia-boy]

I know that you can use line breaks in PHP by using the \n switch - but it only works when use in conjunction within a string in quotations....right?

Then there is the option to break out of PHP back into HTML and do a <br>, but when I try to do that, I get parse errors. Right now, I'm doing excercises in a Learn PHP book and I have written the following script. I simply want line breaks between the variable outputs in the browser - how would I accomplish this??

<?php

$var1 = 3.45;
print gettype($var1);
print $var1;

$var2 = 3;
print gettype($var2);
print $var2;

$var3 = "Activity";
print gettype($var3);
print $var3;

?>

Thanks.

[LordShryku]

Well, first, \n and <br> are not the same thing. \n will only create the break in the source of the rendered page, but won't display a break to the user.

$var1 = 3.45;
print gettype($var1)."<br />";
print $var1."<br />";

That should work. What error do you get with this?

[Dutch_MaFia-boy]

I backtracked my code and go it working in a round-about way of closing and opening up php and using the HTML <br> tag.

Thank-you very much for your solution - I will implement it immediatly instead of the solution I used.

Thanks!