Line break in PHP

Question

I am trying to create a newline character in my foreach loop. After the URL I am trying to create a newline and then have a "------" between the title and content. After this there is supposed to be a space between the next URL. I have the space but I can't seem to get the line break. When I echo "\t" or "\n" in the loop nothing happens. When I use HTML in the loop it won't work, gives too many spaces.

for($i=0; $i < 4 ;$i++)
{
foreach ($json as $URL)
    {
        echo $URL ['results'][$i]['url'];
        echo "---------------";
        foreach ($json as $TITLE)
        {
              echo $TITLE ['results'][$i]['title'];
              echo "--------";
        }
        foreach ($json as $content)
              echo $content['results'][$i]['content'];
        echo "---------------- ";
    }
}

Is there a function in php besides "\n" or another way of manipulating the HTML to insert the line break?

TIA

Try a light-fix `echo $TITLE ['results'][$i]['title'] . " ";` Non-breakable space wont give much space taht you want to avoid. — Ignat B., Jul 11 '13 at 11:15
[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2531969/print-newline-in-php-in-single-quotes](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2531969/print-newline-in-php-in-single-quotes) — Lan, Jul 11 '13 at 11:15
When I use echo"
"; in the first foreach loop it gives me the url, 3 spaces and then the title and content. I'm thinking it must have something to do with the foreach loop itself — Daniel o keeffe, Jul 11 '13 at 11:31
Cheers Ignat, I just used echo Surl['results'][['$i']['url']."
" which works perfectly, and gives me an idea on another problem as to how to hyperlink the urls. Thanks guys. — Daniel o keeffe, Jul 11 '13 at 11:36

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 11 '13 at 11:17

There are two things you can do:

1: Use <br> as line break. If you use that, you should also consider using <hr> to insert the horizontal line.

some text<br>
<hr>
some other text<br>

2: Use <pre> and </pre> tags around your text to output preformatted text. You can then use \n and \t to format your text.

<pre>
some text\n
-------\n
some other text\n
</pre>

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '13 at 11:17

This might the one you are searching for

for($i=0; $i < 4 ;$i++)
{
foreach ($json as $URL)
    {
        echo $URL ['results'][$i]['url'];
    echo "<br/>";        
    echo "---------------";
        foreach ($json as $TITLE)
        {
              echo $TITLE ['results'][$i]['title'];
              echo "--------";
        }
        foreach ($json as $content)
              echo $content['results'][$i]['content'];
        echo "---------------- ";
    }
}

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 11 '13 at 11:15

2

\n doesn't work in HTML. If you view source of the document you will however see the line breaks. Use html markup like

Test line break<br />
<p>paragraph</p>
<p>paragraph</p>

answered Jul 11 '13 at 11:15

JimL

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 11 '13 at 11:19

1

Simply add <br /> to echo statements. as in html we use this for line breaks.

echo "Content"."<br />";

This would give line breaks in HTML format.

answered Jul 11 '13 at 11:19

aakashkrgoel

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 11 '13 at 11:19

1

use

 echo "<br />";

instead of

 echo "---------------- ";

answered Jul 11 '13 at 11:19

chirag ode

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 11 '13 at 11:23

1

Use echo '
';

<?php
    echo "first line.<br />Second line.';
?>

or nl2br() function,

<?php
    echo nl2br("first line.\nSecond line.");
?>

answered Jul 11 '13 at 11:23

way2vin

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 01 '20 at 05:28

0

You can consider echo "<hr /> ";

answered Sep 01 '20 at 05:28

Rahul H

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Line break in PHP

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