Re: [PHP] Linebreak
Martin Alterisio wrote: You wouldn't feel/look stupid if you had RTFM: no no thats not right - I RTFM all the time and still feel stupid ;-) http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.single to to OP: do read up on strings some more (look for the word 'interpolation' and make sure you know what it means). -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Linebreak
On Thu, April 20, 2006 9:47 pm, Peter Lauri wrote: I feel stupid. In many examples I have seen similar to: echo 'pWhatever./p\n'; echo 'pAn other whatever./p\n'; But my PHP outputs the \n instead of a new line in the source. I am stupid? No, just naive. :-) Quotes () and Apostrophes (') are not QUITE the same in PHP. To some degree, they are VERY different. ' has only two (2) special characters: ' and \ has a lot of special characters, and interpolates variables and one-dimension arrays. \n only works in not in ' Read this and you'll be WAY ahead of the game: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Linebreak
Richard Lynch wrote: On Thu, April 20, 2006 9:47 pm, Peter Lauri wrote: I feel stupid. In many examples I have seen similar to: echo 'pWhatever./p\n'; echo 'pAn other whatever./p\n'; But my PHP outputs the \n instead of a new line in the source. I am stupid? No, just naive. :-) Quotes () and Apostrophes (') are not QUITE the same in PHP. To some degree, they are VERY different. ' has only two (2) special characters: ' and \ has a lot of special characters, and interpolates variables and one-dimension arrays. just to add: you can interpolate any dimension of arrays (and objects for that matter) as long as you bother to escape the variables with braces inside the string e.g. $str = my {$array['one']['two']['three']} string {$object-prop} interpolation; \n only works in not in ' Read this and you'll be WAY ahead of the game: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Linebreak
I feel stupid. In many examples I have seen similar to: echo 'pWhatever./p\n'; echo 'pAn other whatever./p\n'; But my PHP outputs the \n instead of a new line in the source. I am stupid?
Re: [PHP] Linebreak
You wouldn't feel/look stupid if you had RTFM: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.single 2006/4/20, Peter Lauri [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I feel stupid. In many examples I have seen similar to: echo 'pWhatever./p\n'; echo 'pAn other whatever./p\n'; But my PHP outputs the \n instead of a new line in the source. I am stupid?