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[themanwhowas]

i dont want to sound retarded but he \n function in php doesnt seem to do anything. in C language it prints the next line on a new line and according to my book this is the same with php. but it doesnt. i am forced to use <br /> to create new lines and have whole scripts with no \n functions. whats going on here?

[Piranha]

Where do you want the next line? Do you want it in the HTML/PHP code or on the webpage?

If you want it in the code then it should work. But on the webpage you need to use <br />.

Look at the [man]nl2br[/man], it may solve part of the problem.

[Sangre]

Piranha allready said, but what i like to add:

If you echo loads of code (with <br />'s in it) it looks great in Dreamweaver

But if someone visits your page, and he looks at the Source, all the HTML code is in 1 big line in a total mess 🙂

So \n is a good way to make your html-source nice and tidy
its like an [ENTER] when editing your HTML-files in wordpad.

[NogDog]

If the newline is in text that is being output as part of a [X]HTML document, remember that browsers treat newlines within HTML text as word spaces, except in special circumstances such as text between <pre>...</pre> tags (or other tags which have had the CSS "white-space: pre;" property assigned to them). If you do a "view source" of the resulting page, you should see the lines breaking at each newline character, but the browser display will only break lines at applicable tags or when the available horizontal space requires it (except for the special "pre" cases noted above).

[Sangre]

ow and not using newlines at all is a decent way to protect your html-source from being hijacked 😃. its kinda unreadable when everything is in 1 big line 😉

[suntra]

Sangre wrote:

ow and not using newlines at all is a decent way to protect your html-source from being hijacked 😃. its kinda unreadable when everything is in 1 big line 😉

That is if you IQ is very low 😉

[themanwhowas]

wow. i only posted this just over an hour ago and so many replies. to be honest, im not too bothered about people viewing my source but i suppose its only polite. thank you all for the answers

[rincewind456]

Sangre wrote:

ow and not using newlines at all is a decent way to protect your html-source from being hijacked 😃. its kinda unreadable when everything is in 1 big line 😉

That is until you grab a copy of tudyui and up pops your nicely formatted and indented code. 🆒

But I suppose it's as good a way as most other ideas for obfuscating [X]HTML code. 😃