Special character \n \t don't work

DonMarco

I'm now in third week of learning PHP language. I'm must admit that it interested me so much that I'm studying it until 2 o'clock in the morning.

I have smaller problem.

Special characters like \n for new line or \t for tabulator don't work for me.

It doesn't report me any error they are just not executing, like they would not be present in my instructions.

My code is next:

[FONT=Arial]<?php

$string1 = "String in \n\tdouble quotes";
echo $string1;

?>[/FONT]

It should give result in IE:

[FONT=Arial]String in
double quotes[/FONT]

But my result is still all in one row without tab indent:

[FONT=Arial]String in double quotes[/FONT]

Any idea how to fix this?

Regards
Sasha from Slovenia

Kudose

Actually, I dont believe it will. Those sort of characters are for files, emails and the likes.

You should look at your source from the browser. I bet it shows up on two lines there ... but since IE and FF render via HTML, it pretty much ignores them ... aside from making your "viewable source code" much cleaner.

If you were to output your string to a file (i.e. myfile.txt), you would see the line break correctly.

Houdini

If you were to view source in Firefox and possibly IE it would render this

String in 
  double quotes

to see the line break I suppose using a <br /> and for the tab possibly    .... after the <br /> would do something like that in a browser.
like this

$string1 = "String in <br />\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;double quotes";
echo $string1;

DonMarco

Hi Kudose

You have win your bet :-) it happened just like you wrote. I don't see effect on screen bit under source in browsers it is working.

I'm going through book "PHP5 for Dummies" and I had read 100 pages so far.

So far all examples which I have retyped on my laptop worked until this special
characters.

Never mind I will go to the end of this book to learn basic's of PHP and than I already have one in standby to read....book title contains "UNLEASHED" so I believe there will be code which actually in real life works :-)

It gives me a lot of courage to countinue becouse of support like yours.

Regards
Sasha

Kudose

DonMarco wrote:
It gives me a lot of courage to countinue becouse of support like yours.

🙂 Thank you. I was definately in your shoes once before, and still encounter problems today ... over 1,500 posts later ... so I know how you feel and how bad it sucks to get these very minor problems.

Good luck on your future endeavours.

Houdini

You might also want to try reading and following the examples provided in the Practical PHP Programming available online, it is up to date at least to PHP 5 and quite helpful.