[RESOLVED] \n not working

[JumpinJuniper]

I am sure this is something obvious, however, I have tried multiple combinations of the coding to get it to work. All I want to do is have it create a new line.

<?php

$website = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
$RemoteIP = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$RemoteHost = gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);

echo 'The website is ' , "$website \n";
echo 'The User\'s IP Address is ' , "$RemoteIP \n";
echo 'The User\'s IP resolves to ' , "$RemoteHost \n";

?>

I have tried moving the \n to it's own double-quoted section, such as "$website", "\n". I have also tried doing "website\n" and so forth. I have reread over the php.net manual involving escaping characters and quotes (strings).

I used gethostbyaddr because $_SERVER['REMOTE_HOST'] did not resolve.

Thanks

[cahva]

It propably works but you are watching it through browser and browser uses <br>-tag as a line break. If you watch it via "Show sourcecode" you can see they are indeed in different lines.

[JumpinJuniper]

That done the trick. Thanks, I figured it was something simple.

I replaced the \n with <br> as such:

echo 'The website is ' , "$website <br>";
echo 'The User\'s IP Address is ' , "$RemoteIP <br>";
echo 'The User\'s IP resolves to ' , "$RemoteHost <br>";

Out of curiosity, though, why does \n work on some echo sniplets I see on the Internet? It wouldn't have anything to do with me mixing single and double quotes, would it?

[cahva]

Ypu can retain the \n in output if you use <pre> tag. Example:

echo "<pre>First line\nSecond line\nThird line\n</pre>";

[Weedpacket]

JumpinJuniper wrote:

Out of curiosity, though, why does \n work on some echo sniplets I see on the Internet?

Probably because the output from that code isn't designed to be viewed as HTML.