new line in echo statement
i took some time off c++ to learn a little more php, and i decided to make a simple little thing that stores url's in a .txt file and then outputs them later as links, i did this fine, but i cant get the echo statement to drop down a line after i output the url.
<?php
$filename = 'test.txt';
$handle = fopen($filename, 'r');
while(!feof($handle))
{
$text= fgets($handle);
echo \"<a href=\\"$text\\">\";
echo $text;
}
fclose($handle);
?>i tried adding \n to the echo but i cant figure out how to do it right, i appriciate the help.
anyone can do any amount of work provided it isnt the work they are supposed to be doing.
Busy posted this at 04:50 — 14th May 2003.
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just put the \n where you want the newline to go, is better in a quoted or bracketed section
echo "\n"; or you can add it before the $text (second line), can even make it one whole line
echo "\n$text";
don't forget to close the link ()
jammin posted this at 05:10 — 14th May 2003.
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thanks, but it still doesnt work. it wont put out a new line.
dk01 posted this at 06:56 — 14th May 2003.
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Are you on a mac or unix machine?
It matters and actually windows newlines are \r\n.
Anyways for a solution go to this page:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php
and look at the comment by eightraks at linux-foo dot com
-dk
andy206uk posted this at 12:15 — 14th May 2003.
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do you mean it wont do a newline when you display it in a browser?
Thats cos its html! you need a
<?php
$filename = 'test.txt';
$handle = fopen($filename, 'r');
while(!feof($handle))
{
$text= fgets($handle);
echo \"<a href=\\"$text\\">\";
echo $text;
echo \"<br>\";
}
fclose($handle);
?>
Andy
dk01 posted this at 13:29 — 14th May 2003.
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Yeah if you meant in the browser then look at andy's example and forget mine. I thought you meant when it actually prints to the html source.
-dk
jammin posted this at 22:14 — 14th May 2003.
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thanks, but i was wondering about the \n thingy, so it just doesnt work when outputting to html?
Suzanne posted this at 23:32 — 14th May 2003.
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It will work in the HTML source, but not in the displayed HTML. Of course Andy's example is missing a closing tag, lol.
\r\n works for text areas, et cetera.
You want the HTML to look like this:
text
text
text
Or
text
text
text
???
andy206uk posted this at 08:25 — 15th May 2003.
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True... but then, so was the original example!
Basically the puts the line break in the html, so when the page is viewed in a web browser your content will go to the next line. the /n will put a linebreak in the code so it will split the source code (ie what you see when you go to "view source") into multiple lines
if you don't put a /n after the the source will look like
blah blah blah<br>blah blah blah<br>blah blah blah<br>'with the /n it will look like:
blah blah blah<br>blah blah blah<br>
blah blah blah<br>
Andy
jammin posted this at 03:30 — 17th May 2003.
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ahhh... ok i thought maybe it would output to html when it was parsed. thanks.
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