[SOLVED] Escape characters not escaping...

[Halyard]

I am teaching myself PHP, and wrote this snippet to test escape characters:-

 

<?php

echo "This piece has been written to test escape characters,/n";
echo "especially the newline/n";
echo "character...";

?>

 

Expecting to see something like this:-

 

This piece has been written to test escape characters,

especially the newline

character...

 

Not something like this:-

 

This piece has been written to test escape characters,/nespecially the newline/ncharacter...

 

I have already done some extensive searching, and most answers seem to say that magic_quotes should be set to OFF, and all will work (Maniacial Laugh Here)

 

This from the PHP Info page:-

 

magic_quotes_gpc Off Off

magic_quotes_runtime Off Off

magic_quotes_sybase Off Off

 

So WTF is wrong - it beats me!

[dennismonsewicz]

your slashes are the wrong way...

 

so not /n but \n

[Halyard]

your slashes are the wrong way...

 

so not /n but \n

 

OMFG!!!!! The one thing I did not check! What a effing DUMMY! Talk about not being able to see the wood for the trees...

 

Thanks for spotting the bleedin obvious.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

And once you get the escape character correct, a \n does not have any meaning in HTML. When you output it to the browser it formats the source code of the page. You need a <br> or <br /> tag to cause a newline in the HTML content.

[dennismonsewicz]

your slashes are the wrong way...

 

so not /n but \n

 

OMFG!!!!! The one thing I did not check! What a effing DUMMY! Talk about not being able to see the wood for the trees...

 

Thanks for spotting the bleedin obvious.

 

LOL its cool bro. We all have been there... I know I have been there on more than one several occasion!

[Halyard]

And once you get the escape character correct, a \n does not have any meaning in HTML. When you output it to the browser it formats the source code of the page. You need a <br> or <br /> tag to cause a newline in the HTML content.

 

Ah, so maybe that's why when I changed the slashes I still got this:-

 

This piece has been written to test escape characters, especially the newline character...

 

instead of this:-

 

This piece has been written to test escape characters,

especially the newline

character...