Elegant solution for line-breaks PHP

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var    Hi there    lt br  gt    Welcome to my website    lt br  gt    echo  var    Is there an elegant way to handle line-breaks in PHP  I m not sure about other languages  but C   has eol so something thats more readable and elegant to use   Thanks

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Because you are outputting to the browser  you have to use  lt br  gt   Otherwise there is  n and  r or both combined

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in php line breaks we can use PHP EOL  END of LINE   it working as   n  but it cannot be shown on the ht ml page  because we have to give HTML break  to break the Line    so you can use it using define  define   EOL    lt br gt       then you can call it

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I ended up writing a function that has worked for me well so far      pretty print data function out  data   label   NULL        CLI    php sapi name        cli      cli            gettype   gettype  data      if  isset  label         if   CLI     label    label               else    label     lt b gt    label   lt  b gt               if   gettype     string      gettype     integer      gettype     double      gettype     boolean         if   CLI    echo  label    data     n         else   echo  label    data     lt br  gt            else       if   CLI    echo  label   print r  data 1      n          else   echo  label     lt pre gt   print r  data 1    lt  pre gt                 Usage  out  Hello world       var    Hello Stackoverflow    out  var   Label

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Not very  elegant  and kinda a waste  but if you really care what the code looks like you could make your own fancy flag and then do a str replace   Example  lt br   gt   myoutput     After this sentence there is a line break  lt b gt      lt  b gt  Here is a new line    lt br   gt   myoutput    str replace          amp lt br   gt    myoutput   lt br   gt    or    how about  lt br   gt   myoutput     After this sentence there is a line break  lt b gt E   3 lt  b gt  Here is a new line    lt br   gt   myoutput    str replace  E   3    amp lt br   gt    myoutput   lt br   gt    I call the first method  middle finger style  and the second  goatse style

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I have defined this   if  PHP SAPI      cli        define   LNBR   PHP EOL     else      define   LNBR     lt BR  gt         After this use LNBR wherever I want to use  n

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Well  as with any language there are several ways to do it   As previous answerers have mentioned    lt br  gt   is not a linebreak in the traditional sense  it s an HTML line break   I don t know of a built in PHP constant for this  but you can always define your own      Something like this  but call it whatever you like const HTML LINEBREAK     lt br  gt      If you re outputting a bunch of lines  from an array of strings for example   you can use it this way      Output an array of strings  myStrings   Array  Line1   Line2   Line3    echo implode HTML LINEBREAK  myStrings     However  generally speaking I would say avoid hard coding HTML inside your PHP echo print statements   If you can keep the HTML outside of the code  it makes things much more flexible and maintainable in the long run

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For linebreaks  PHP as   n   see double quote strings  and PHP EOL   Here  you are using  lt br   gt   which is not a PHP line-break   it s an HTML linebreak    Here  you can simplify what you posted  with HTML linebreaks    no need for the strings concatenations   you can put everything in just one string  like this     var    Hi there lt br  gt Welcome to my website lt br  gt      Or  using PHP linebreaks     var    Hi there nWelcome to my website n     Note   you might also want to take a look at the nl2br   function  which inserts  lt br gt  before  n

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n  didn t work for me   the  n appear in the bodytext of the email I was sending   this is how I resolved it   str pad  input  990       so that the spaces will pad out to the 990 cut off

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