PHP 5: \n does not generate newline

[boococp]

Running PHP5 on Ubuntu 9.10

The following code:

<?php
$v="Test line";
$i=1;
while ($i <=10) {
printf ("%s\n", $v);
$i++;
}
?>

generates the following output in Firefox:

Test line Test line Test line Test line Test line Test line Test line Test line Test line Test line

Can someone tell me why \n is not generating newlines?

[MadCow108]

if your using php for a webpage: newlines on websites (html) are written as <br/>
else: ignore this post

[Reiger]

In order to get line breaks, use the PHP_EOL constant. This is the "platform independent" end-of-line character/string.

[miklcct]

Have you set your Content-Type correctly (it should be text/plain)?

[Hellkeepa]

HELLo!

Unless a web browser is told otherwise, as noted above by miklcct, it'll assume that it is a web page. Thus it ignores the newlines, and treats them as a single space instead (as per the standard).

Happy codin'!