escape character

[blackcat]

I dont know why the browser doesn't present the php string with some escape character like \n,\t....

For example: the string "Name\nAddress" should be printed out like

Name

Address

instead it prints out "Name Address".I tried other ones and do not work. Anyone know why?

 

[per1os]

You need to use nl2br()  www.php.net/nl2br

 

That should solve your issue for the line break.

 

Why it is doing that is because html does not notice the line break on the gui portion of the page. It will behind the scenes in the source. But in order to have it display with the break you need to convert the \n to < br />

[nogray]

for a line break on a browser, you need to use HTML < br /> tag instead of \n

 

Or you can put your output between < pre>< /pre> tag (spaces added to tag so they show up)

[Barand]

you need 'pre' tags for html to recognise \n \t etc

echo "<pre>Name\n\tAddress</pre>";

 

-->[pre]

Name

Address

[/pre]