Comments on: PHP eats my newline

By: Rickard

Rickard — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:01:56 +0000

I disagree. In my opinion, if there are two newlines, it should output two newlines. Anything else is “magic” and that’s something we want to avoid as much as possible.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:00:39 +0000

Try again:

Line Before
for ($i=0; $i<10; $i++)
echo “Internal Line $i\n”;
?>
Line After

Then it works as expected, rather than having a blank line between “Internal Line 9″ and “Line After”… If it didn’t gobble the newline then you’d need:

…
?>Line After

Which is even worse, IMHO.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:58:58 +0000

I like the way the end of a PHP block includes the newline directly after it; what if you wanted to loop within the block:

Line Before
for ($i=0; $i
Line After

Then it works as expected, rather than having a blank line between “Internal Line 9″ and “Line After”… If it didn’t gobble the newline then you’d need:

Line After

Which is even worse, IMHO.

By: jive

jive — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:36:40 +0000

I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed PHP does that.

By: Gizzmo

Gizzmo — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:44:22 +0000

Yes its Very annoying

By: StevenBullen

StevenBullen — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:35:03 +0000

Clean markup in source code is a must… :P

Its so much better on the eye.