php EOF ignoring new line

Question

<?php

$mytext = <<<EOF
test {
    gl: 100;
    mkd: 0;
    sld: 0;
}
EOF;



echo $mytext;

?>

the output is :

test { aaa: black; bbb: yellow; ccc: red; }

and I want the output exactly how it's wrote inside the eof segments.

test {
    gl: 100;
    mkd: 0;
    sld: 0;
}

Any idea ?

Don't look in your browser: that will collapse _any_ sequential whitespace to 1 space. Look the _source_ of the page: is that the output you want? — Wrikken, Feb 28 '14 at 13:56
Yes! On the source it looks fine and this is what I need BUT want to display the end results for the user :) I thought it would be extremely easy :D — , Feb 28 '14 at 14:02
If you're sending this output to the _browser_, it will ignore EOL, collapse whitespace, and glue together fragments. You will need to explicitly add `
`'s or use `
` to force multiple lines. — Phil Perry, Feb 28 '14 at 14:39

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '14 at 13:56

2

Use <pre> to format the text like that:

<?php

$mytext = <<<EOF
<pre>
test {
    gl: 100;
    mkd: 0;
    sld: 0;
}</pre>
EOF;



echo $mytext;

?>

answered Feb 28 '14 at 13:56

Shlomo

I need to keep the EXACT format since the input would be by the user. – Feb 28 '14 at 13:57
Yes, you get the userinput in `$strInput` then do: `$strInput = 'test { gl: 100; mkd: 0; sld: 0; }'; $mytext = << $strInput EOF;` – Shlomo Feb 28 '14 at 14:00

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

1

Browser usually ignores control characters, like whitespaces in HTML.

Another solution would be using echo(nl2br($mytext)) instead. Which would convert all \n into <br />.

Converting manually might help You dealing with another kind of whitespaces. Something like this:

$replacee = array("\n", "\t");
$replacement = array("<br />", "    ");
$mytext = str_replace($replacee, $replacement, $mytext);

Really similar problem linked here and here (mostly client side solutions).

edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

Community

answered Feb 28 '14 at 14:01

Kamiccolo

2 Answers2