newline question

[mando53]

A non-programmer newbie here.
I don't understand why my code doesn't print a newline.

For instance:

$number = 10;
echo 'There are $number members in the group';
echo "\n";
echo "There are $number members in the group";

The 2 lines ouput on the same line.
Same goes for \t.

Thanks for your patience.

[glcarlstrom]

Are you displaying this PHP script in a web browser?

If you are, newlines (and other whitespace characters) have no meaning; you have to use HTML code to format your text. Try the <br> tag instead:

echo "<br>";

[mando53]

Thanks glcarlstrom.

The book I'm using hasn't mentioned using that.
Yes, I'm viewing all output in the browser.

I got a long way to go but I'll get there. Someday. 🙂

[joshwalsh]

The clarify a bit more. \n and \t will put new lines in your source code... but as you know, putting new lines in the source code doesn't mean new lines in the browser output... hence the <br>