Creating a new line in a txt file

Hello everyone. My php script outputs some information into a text file and I am trying to have information put onto seperate lines
for example:
the text currently looks like this: firstname lastname city state
I want it to look like this:
firstname
lastname
city
state

i have tried using < /br> and ; at the end of my variables but doesnt seam to be working..any ideas?

 

try putting /n after the variables for the newline command. If it doesn't work could you post the code

 

"/n" should work you can also add "/r" for cartridge return just to be on the safe side.

 

yah, putting "/n" (the newline character) should work - "<br>" is only understood by web browsers...

 

do not putting anything. just push ENTER.

 

I believe that you will need to put '\n' and not '/n'.

 

You use \n for *nix, \r\n for windows and \r for Mac. But I think \n by itself is often quite enough.

Thomas

 

My bad..it's indeed \n

 

Note: '\n' (single quotes) won't work, so make sure you use "\n" (double quotes).

 

Change from </br> to >> <br /> if you print or echo for display on browser i think it can show.

example

your data // profile.txt

//--------------------
firstname<br/> lastname<br /> age<br/>

you must split data for show again

 

<?php
$stuffToWrite = "$firstname\n";
$stuffToWrite =. "$lastname\n";
$stuffToWrite =. "$city\n";
$stuffToWrite =. "$state\n";

writeMyStuff($stuffToWrite);
?>

PHP:

Obviously replacing the function/variable names as appropriate

 

Shouldn't that be

$stuffToWrite .= "$lastname\n";

PHP:

?

Thomas

 

Oops, good catch, you're right.