? About Windows based servers

[Demonic]

When I test some of the scripts on my Os from the PHP manual site It seems that the \n doesn't work properly? So I have to use the [code]<br />[/code] is there a reason of this?

[zq29]

Different operating system families have different line-ending conventions. When you write a text file and want to insert a line break, you need to use the correct line-ending character(s) for your operating system. Unix based systems use \n as the line ending character, Windows based systems use \r\n  as the line ending characters and Macintosh based systems use \r as the line ending character.

[wildteen88]

[quote author=Demonic link=topic=118962.msg486581#msg486581 date=1166351038]
When I test some of the scripts on my Os from the PHP manual site It seems that the \n doesn't work properly? So I have to use the [code]<br />[/code] is there a reason of this?
[/quote]
Are you running the script in the browser which outputs html with new line characters? Example:

[code=php:0]<?php

echo "hello \n world";

?>[/code]


When you view that in the browser you get 'hello world' instead.

If you are then the browser will ignore these characters, however if you look in the source you'll see they are there. Instead you will need to use the html equivalent ([nobbc]<br />[/nobbc]) in order for a line break to appear on the page.