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PHP PHP Basics (Retired) PHP Datatypes Strings

Justo Montoya
Justo Montoya
3,799 Points
Posted by Justo Montoya
Justo Montoya
3,799 Points

\n indents the first "echo $greeting;" line.

In the video, adding \n at the end of the $greeting string did not indent the "Hello, Friends!" line, but on mine it does. Am I doing anything wrong? I am using google chrome browser.

 <?php
      $greeting = "Hello, Friends!\n";
      $greeting{0} = "J";
      $secondary_greeting = "How are you today?";
      echo $greeting;
      echo $secondary_greeting;
?>

3 Answers

David Weigel
David Weigel
8,265 Points
David Weigel
David Weigel
8,265 Points

To clarify a bit of what Redmar is saying:

I was able to get the two sentences to line up correctly as shown by doing the following:
after the pre opening tag, have the php opening tag immediately follow. This would look like: 

<pre><?php

followed by any whitespace you want for readability.

Ted Sumner
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points

Yes, that would make a difference.

Redmar de Haan
Redmar de Haan
11,280 Points
Redmar de Haan
Redmar de Haan
11,280 Points

<pre><?php should be on the same line (and no space).

The <pre> tag defines preformatted text. Text in a <pre> element is displayed in a fixed-width font (usually Courier), and it preserves both spaces and line breaks.

Ted Sumner
PLUS
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points
Ted Sumner
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points

I have never really used \n, but try adding a space between the ! and \n. I use the html break tag.