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Weather Vane
Weather Vane

Reputation: 34585

How do I get a newline in the PHP output from echo?

I am generating a large amount of HTML code with PHP using echo and it is all appearing on one line.

I understand that HTML ignores whitespace, and there are thousands of answers which point out that you need <BR> or a block element. But that is not my question.

My problem is that is very hard to debug my HTML source code when it is all on one line. I am using Windows 7 and the Firefox browser tool Page Source to show the source code.

For a simple example, if the text editor I use shows

<HTML><BODY>
Hello, World!
</BODY></HTML>

Then the browser source code tool shows exactly that too, and when I generate it with PHP like

<?php
echo "<HTML><BODY>";
echo "Hello, World!";
echo "</BODY></HTML>";
?>

then the browser tool shows, as you would expect,

<HTML><BODY>Hello, World!</BODY></HTML>

I want to break the lines, and have tried

<?php
echo "<HTML><BODY>\n";
echo "Hello, World!\n";
echo "</BODY></HTML>\n";
?>

and with "\r\n" and with "\xA" and also like this

<?php
echo "<HTML><BODY>" . PHP_EOL;
echo "Hello, World!" . PHP_EOL;
echo "</BODY></HTML>" . PHP_EOL;
?>

yet the content stays resolutely on a single line.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 190

Answers (1)

Kevin Gales
Kevin Gales

Reputation: 532

This works on windows

<?php
echo "<HTML><BODY>
";
echo "Hello, World!
";
echo "</BODY></HTML>
";
?>

Upvotes: 1

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