Re: [PHP-DOC] Please Help From: Philip Olson (philip <email protected>)
Date: 10/14/02

Please ask general php questions towards the
php-general mailing list.

In short, it's because you used single quotes.
'$foo' will literally print $foo, not the value.
Same for \n. See:

  http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

Regards,
Philip

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Shaun wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I`m using php 4.1 with apache on Windows2000 server.
> When i open the following php file in my browser
>
> <html>
> <body>
> <?php print('hallo world\n');?>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> the output in my browser is
>
> hello world\n
>
> why did the browser not interpret the newline character ?
>
>
>
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