Re: [Sheflug] PHP & MySQL

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 08 March 2002 10:16 pm, you wrote:
> the pages are brilliant, examples are crystal clear and work out of the
> box--except I am puzzled by one wee thing:
> I don't get carriage returns from the (shortened) snippet
>
>  while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
>     printf("%s %s\n", $row[0], $row[1]);
> }

This won't, as I didn't put on in. D'Oh!

> nor does echo "stuff\n" produce a cr.  Bug or feature?  Anyone else have
> similar behaviour?

It does produce one, but only in the source HTML. You need to echo <br> to 
break the line in the output document in the browser window. It is just HTML, 
after all.

When I finish the outputting tutorial, this will become crystal clear :)

> btw I am a complete beginner at AMP...but I might just get hooked...

It is a very easy way to get into web development, thanks to the miriad ways 
PHP can do anything. Some of it's concepts and obejct orientation 
implementation is a bit knackered, but as a prodecural language it is just 
fine :)

Craig
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