How To echo a line break in the browser?

Question

I dont know how to echo a new line in PHP. I have tried echo "\n" but it does not work.

I want to echo new lines in the following code.

Code:

if (file_exists($fName)) {
   echo "CreationTime: ".$CreationTime.
        "CurrentTime: ".$CurrentTime.
        "after ".($fLifeTime)." Days from Creation: ".$fAge;
   }

Use "
" since you're echoing the content to your browser. :) — verisimilitude, May 17 '12 at 12:14
It is `echo "\n"` like you tried. Do you mean you didn't see a new line in your *browser* — jprofitt, May 17 '12 at 12:14
Possible duplicate of [PHP - how to create a newline character?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4238433/php-how-to-create-a-newline-character) — hakre, May 18 '12 at 14:32

Tufan Barış Yıldırım · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-17T12:22:18.487

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IF you are looking this output from a browser, you must use <br /> tag or, put <pre> before your echo.

For new line
example.

if (file_exists($fName)) {
   echo "CreationTime: ".$CreationTime. "<br />".
        "CurrentTime: ".$CurrentTime. "<br />" .
        "after ".($fLifeTime)." Days from Creation: ".$fAge;
   }

pre example

 if (file_exists($fName)) {
      echo "<pre>";
       echo "CreationTime: ".$CreationTime. PHP_EOL .
            "CurrentTime: ".$CurrentTime. PHP_EOL .
            "after ".($fLifeTime)." Days from Creation: ".$fAge;
       }

edited May 17 '12 at 12:22

answered May 17 '12 at 12:14

Tufan Barış Yıldırım

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+1 for the pre suggestion. But if you can help it, only use pre when using a print command – RSM May 17 '12 at 12:16
Thank you, I will write new example for EOL. – Tufan Barış Yıldırım May 17 '12 at 12:17

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 17 '12 at 12:14

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you can do it like this

if (file_exists($fName)) {
    echo "CreationTime: ".$CreationTime.
    "<br />CurrentTime: ".$CurrentTime.
    "<br />after ".($fLifeTime)." Days from Creation: ".$fAge;
}

answered May 17 '12 at 12:14

Rukmi Patel

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 17 '12 at 12:15

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Try to do like this:--

if (file_exists($fName)) {
   echo "CreationTime: ".$CreationTime.
        "CurrentTime: ".$CurrentTime.
        "after ".($fLifeTime)." Days from Creation: ".$fAge;
echo "<br/>"; //break to new line.
   }

answered May 17 '12 at 12:15

Javascript Coder

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 17 '12 at 12:45

Maybe try to use PHP_EOL and nl2br()?

if (!file_exists($fName)) {
    $info = "CreationTime: " . $CreationTime . PHP_EOL .
        "CurrentTime: ". $CurrentTime . PHP_EOL .
        "after ". ($fLifeTime)." Days from Creation: " . $fAge;

    echo nl2br($info);
}

How To echo a line break in the browser?

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