Newline

[ari_aaron]

Is there a way to print a newline? It's been a while since I used PHP, but I seem to remember that doing it before.

I don't mean a HTML newline, but in the source code, to make it easy to read.

Any help?

[ted_chou12]

but new line do you mean >>> \r\n ?
Ted

[dbo]

echo "Somestuff\n";

[ari_aaron]

Sorry, that works, but it dosn't do what I expenected.

I am trying to output a javascript, like this:
[code]/*****************REPORT PMs*************/
/*
Report PMs to Admin
©2006 by ari_aaron
*/
adminname="ari_aaron"
if (location.href.match("&fwd=1&report=1"))
{
subj=document.getElementsByName('msg_title')[0].value.replace("Fwd:"," ")
rep = document.getElementById('userlinks').getElementsByTagName('A')[0].innerHTML
document.getElementsByName('entered_name')[0].value=adminname
document.getElementsByName('msg_title')[0].value="Reported PM"
omess=document.getElementsByName('Post')[0].value
mess=omess.replace("[QUOTE]Message Forwarded From", "[b]Sender:[/b]")
mess=mess.replace("\n","\n[b]Reporter:[/b] "+rep+"\n[b]Subject:[/b] "+subj+" \n [b]Message[/b]:\n[QUOTE]")
document.getElementsByName('Post')[0].value=mess
document.getElementsByName("submit")[0].click()
}
if(location.href.match("act=Msg&CODE=03"))
{
divs=document.getElementsByTagName('div')
for(i=0;i!=divs.length;i++)
{
if(divs[i].innerHTML.match(">Forward PM<"))
{
path=divs[i].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].href+"&report=1"
divs[i].innerHTML=divs[i].innerHTML.replace(']', '| <a href='+path+'>Report PM</a>]')
}
}
}
/*************END CODE******************/[/code]

It is much easier to read with newlines. I thought a newline in the source code would make a newline here, but it seems that I was wrong.

Is it the file type? Or is there a way to do this?

[kenrbnsn]

Please post the PHP script that is used to produce the Javascript.

Ken

[ari_aaron]

It's not really the code, it is selected from the SQL database where it has newlines, and they are displayed as '\n'. I was asking before for outputting the comments on top which is just echoing a line with inserted info:
[code]echo '/***'.$codename.'***/';[/code]

This is more complicated than I thought.

[wildteen88]

When echo'ing lines with whitespace characters (\t, \n, \r etc) do not use single quotes. PHP will treat these literaly. PHP will ignore their special meaning. Instead you should use double quotes:
wont work:
[code=php:0]echo 'this \n string \n has \n new lines!';

// output: this \n string \n has \n new lines![/code]


Will work:
[code=php:0]echo "this \n string \n has \n new lines!";

/* output: this
string
has
new lines! */[/code]


NOTE: You will only see these newlines when viewing the source code in the browser. The browser ignores these characters. In order for the browser to show the new lines you will need to convert them to HTML linebreaks ([nobbc]<br />[/nobbc]

[ari_aaron]

[quote]NOTE: You will only see these newlines when viewing the source code in the browser. The browser ignores these characters. In order for the browser to show the new lines you will need to convert them to HTML linebreaks (<br />[/quote]

That won't help me then.

Is there a way I can get the browser to show it as if it was a JS page, and still execute PHP?

[wildteen88]

I am confused what are you trying to do. The browser will only ignore the whitespace when you go to view the page. However  the whitespace will be present when you go to view the source (right click > view source).

[ari_aaron]

Please read the rest of the topic where I explained it.
I am trying to output a javascript page and I want to make it easy to read.

[wildteen88]

I still don't get what you want to do. Sorry. Are you wanting to show the actual javascript code in the browser or in the source code?