Using end of line in PHP echo string

Question

I am trying to write a PHP script that echos a string, but it doesn't recognize the end of line function in there.

For example,

echo "thank you \n " echo "for coming over" 

The \n is ignored and it prints the whole line as thank you for coming over.

I got the same result for the following to:

echo "thank you " . PHP_EOL.; echo "for coming over" . PHP_EOL.; 

Answer 1

There are different ways to solve that:

Using Pre-formatted text

echo '<pre>'; // pre-formatted text, \n should work echo "thank you \n "; echo "for coming over"; echo '</pre>'; 

Changing the content type

header('Content-Type: text/plain'); echo "thank you \n "; echo "for coming over"; 

You browser will now properly read the output as text.

Using the HTML break element

echo "thank you <br>\n "; echo "for coming over"; 

So output always depends on what you want to output. Is it text? Is it HTML? Is it some text within HTML? Depending on what you need you should take care on the format and formatting.