Windows PHP 5.2.6 - Problems with Escape Characters

[scopnd@gmail.com]

Hi,

I'm new to PHP and I am working through tutorials. I am running PHP
5.2.6, on windows xp. I am having problem with escape characters, they
do not seem to work. The below code example should display on multiple
lines, it just displays on 1 line no '\n' line breaks, it's ignored.
Is there something I need to set in the php.ini file? The php seems to
be installed fine as I can call functions etc.

<?php
$text = "A very long woooooooooooord .";
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 8, "\n", true);

echo "$newtext\n ";
?>


Thanks

Ned

[Guillaume]

Re: Windows PHP 5.2.6 - Problems with Escape Characters

scopnd@gmail.co m a écrit :

The below code example should display on multiple
lines, it just displays on 1 line no '\n' line breaks, it's ignored.
Is there something I need to set in the php.ini file? The php seems to
be installed fine as I can call functions etc.
>
<?php
$text = "A very long woooooooooooord .";
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 8, "\n", true);
>
echo "$newtext\n ";
?>

Are you trying it through your browser ? Cause then, it displays as
expected in the source code only, while your browser doesn't handle
newlines and display all lines concatenated.
You can easily change it by echoing nl2br("{$newtex t}\n"); (I prefer
using curly brackets into double-quoted strings)

Regards,
--
Guillaume

[Michael Austin]

Re: Windows PHP 5.2.6 - Problems with Escape Characters

scopnd@gmail.co m wrote:

Hi,
>
I'm new to PHP and I am working through tutorials. I am running PHP
5.2.6, on windows xp. I am having problem with escape characters, they
do not seem to work. The below code example should display on multiple
lines, it just displays on 1 line no '\n' line breaks, it's ignored.
Is there something I need to set in the php.ini file? The php seems to
be installed fine as I can call functions etc.
>
<?php
$text = "A very long woooooooooooord .";
$newtext = wordwrap($text, 8, "\n", true);
>
echo "$newtext\n ";
?>
>
>
Thanks
>
Ned

try

echo "<pre>$newtext\ n</pre>";

browsers may not treat \n as <brunless it is within the <pretags.

[scopnd@gmail.com]

Re: Windows PHP 5.2.6 - Problems with Escape Characters

Thank you all very much.

Yep I was testing through the browser, your suggetions worked.

Thanks again.