2009/1/28 Stephen <stephe...@rogers.com>:
> Don Collier wrote:
>>
>> I am just learning PHP from the O'Reilly "Learning PHP 5" book and I have
>> a question regarding the formatting of text. Actually it is a couple of
>> questions.
>>
>> First, when I use the \n and run the script from the command line it works
>> great. When I run the same code in a browser it does not put the newline in
>> and the text runs together. I know that I can use <br/> to do the same
>> thing, but why is it this way?
>>
>> The second question is closely related to the first. When formatting text
>> using printf the padding works great when running from the command line but
>> not at all when in a browser.
>> Here is the code that I am working with:
>>
> Browsers **only** support HTML.
>
> They do not understand things like "\n" to be anything special, so they just
> print as it is sent to the browser.
<?php
header('Content-Type: text/plain');
echo "That's\n";
echo "Not\n";
echo "Entirely\n";
echo "Accurate.";
?>
-Stuart
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