file_put_contents() and newline characters \n

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"file_put_contents and a new line help" is close but does not help with my issue.

A user fills in a textarea, which is then sent to a php page for processing.

<form id="slidetext" method="POST" action="create-process.php">
<textarea cols="100" rows="20" id="text" name="text"></textarea>
<input type="submit" id="submit" name="submit">
</form>

The user's input is then used to create a new markdown file on the server.

$text = $_POST['text'];
$file = "files/example.md";
file_put_contents($file, $text);

This works and appears to create a file that adheres to the rules for data separation within the reveal.js framework:

<div class="reveal">
        <div class="slides">
            <section data-markdown="files/example.md"  
                data-separator="^\n\n\n"  
                data-vertical="^\n\n"  
                data-notes="^Note:"  
                data-charset="iso-8859-15">
            </section>      
        </div>
</div>

Despite the example.md file looking like it has new line breaks in the right places, it does not display properly.

If I write the same file manually it does however display as expected. Any help appreciated.

have you tried `\r\n`? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/255511/php-echo-line-breaks — mb21, Jun 29 '14 at 11:35

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 01 '14 at 19:27

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\r\n (Windows linebreaks) instead of \n (Unix linebreaks) might fix this.

answered Jul 01 '14 at 19:27

mb21

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