How to make line breaks for a string or plain text

Question

I intend to use MediaWiki API to create a table for a wiki page. In MediaWiki, the syntax for creating a table should be like the following:

{|class="wikitable sortable"
!'''Full Name'''||'''Short Name'''
|-
|MediaWiki||MW
|} //line breaks must be made

When I called MediaWiki API, I stored the contents in a string:

$content = "{|class='wikitable sortable'!'''Full Name'''||'''Short Name'''|-|MediaWiki||MW|}";

The string will be used as one parameters when MediaWiki API is called, and it will be as the editing contents for that wiki page. I intended to used "br" or "\n" to make line breaks, but failed to create a table. Without line breaks, a table can't be showed either. How can I make line breaks before I call MediaWiki API?

Answer 1

Have you tried:

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