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Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line

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In article <83e11700-3227-43a8-bf36-ab77004976e6@googlegroups.com>,
Alla <modelling.data@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hello!
>
>I am currently learning C programming, and still a newby, but I have also
>started php.
>I will be grateful for your help.
>
>I have watched a tutorial for beginners on using some functions, and the
>author 
>used echo "<br>"; command to print a new line for the next output. I have
>tried it,
>but it didn't work. What could be the problem?
>
>Here is the program:
>
><?php
>//access to function parameters
>    function foo()
>    {
>        
>        $args = func_get_args();
>        print_r($args);
>        echo "<br>";
>        echo $args[0];  
>    }
>
>    foo ("first", 33, true, 77.77);
>?>
>
>and here is how the output looks on my Termnal - the "first" is not being
>printed on a new line:
>
>Array
>(
>    [0] => first
>    [1] => 33
>    [2] => 1
>    [3] => 77.77
>)
><br>first

How are you running PHP? If you are doing it in a Terminal window, then
you don't want "<br>", you want "\n".

<br> is used when, from a web page, you are sending a form to a web
server, and are using PHP on the webserver to create the response
webpage.

-- 
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 quietly strangled." - Sir Barnett Cocks (1907-1989)

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echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line Alla <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-07-04 03:06 -0700
  Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-07-04 12:14 +0200
  Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-07-04 12:19 +0200
    Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-07-05 21:43 +0200
      Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-07-06 13:49 +0200
        Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-07-06 20:57 +0200
  Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line Alla <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-07-04 09:38 -0700
  Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-07-04 12:30 +0100
  Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-07-09 17:43 +0200
    Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line Sebastiaan Kop <sebastiaan@famkop.nl> - 2016-07-24 16:14 +0000
      Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2016-07-30 14:03 -0400
        Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line Jivanmukta <jivanmukta@poczta.onet.pl> - 2016-07-30 20:08 +0200
          Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2016-07-30 17:18 -0400
        Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-07-31 13:28 +0200
          Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-07-31 15:28 +0200
            Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-07-31 17:38 +0200
              Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-08-01 14:57 +0200
                Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-08-01 15:18 +0200
      Re: echo "<br>" wouldn't print a new line "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2016-07-31 08:17 +0200

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