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User6655
User6655

Reputation: 53

Tired of guessing - cannot get line break to work

VERY simple routine that pulls the name of each PDF file in a folder and creates a list of each file found with a link to it. But I cannot get a line break between the items

Nothing seems to give me each file name and link on a new line. I have no idea why.

Neither of the \n has any affect at all.

    <?php
$directory = "./images/";
$phpfiles = glob($directory . "*.pdf");


foreach($phpfiles as $phpfile)
{
echo "\n","<a href=$phpfile>".basename($phpfile)."</a>";
echo "\n";
}
?>

All I get for output is this....all on one line.

CAD_REPEQUEST.pdf JP_CADS.pdf JP_Reports.pdf

What I want is this....

CAD_REPEQUEST.pdf
JP_CADS.pdf
JP_Reports.pdf

Upvotes: 1

Views: 42

Answers (1)

Lawrence Johnson
Lawrence Johnson

Reputation: 4043

If you're outputting to a Web page you'll need to replace \n with <br>.

If you're outputting to a text or other type of file, you may wish to replace \n with the constant PHP_EOL.

If you're outputting this to an email that's getting sent in text format, you'll have trouble with some clients, like Outlook, that will automatically attempt to remove unnecessary line breaks. Sometimes using a double line break helps, or you could convert your email to HTML and use the <br> approach.

Upvotes: 3

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