escape character newline \n tab \t not working

[saiyen2002]

I am relatively new php programmer, and seem to be stuck on something really simple. As I understant it, \t gives you a tab and \n give you a new line. However this does not seem to be the case. Can some one please help me, i am really stressing over this. I am using the following on Fedora linux

 

PHP 5.3.1

Apache/2.2.14

 

contents of file index.php

 

<?php

echo "hello \t world \n";

echo "hello \t universe \n";

?>

 

the out put of this code is

 

hello world hello universe

 

everything is on one line. Can somebody please help see the light!

[premiso]

If you view the source you will see the proper indentation / new lines. In order for the browser to see it you will need to put inside of a <pre> tag:

 

<?php
echo "</pre>hello \t world \n";
echo "hello \t universe \n</pre>";
?>

 

Browsers tend to hide those due to the fact that html can have a ton of tabs and new lines in it that are not meant to be displayed.

[taquitosensei]

that's because in html you should <br> and for tab just use 5 spaces       

[saiyen2002]

thanks guys