[ciapug] Formatting with line breaks...

[David Champion]

Chris Hettinger wrote:

>I am trying to insert into a db field a note entry which will contain the details of a web form, but I have to build that long note entry first, and do some light formatting like line breaks...
>
>        $note = "Generate from Web Form Submission \r\n"
>              . "testing note formatting. \r\n";
>
>How ever this isn't working as I would have suspected. For testing it as I build it I am just echoing it out to the browser with <?= $note; ?> ... It displays but is not including the line breaks.
>  
>

This:

echo "test \r\n";

Is not the same as this:

$x = "test \r\n";
echo $x;

Try it.

The "\r\n" are escaped control characters.

To build those into a string you need to insert the actual CR and LF 
ascii characters.

-dc