Re: [Sheflug] PHP & MySQL

[Matt Fairtlough <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Craig Andrews wrote:

>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!
>
Yes, pretty D'Oh I have to agree.

 I thought that the \n in the format string meant a carriage return.  In 
my further ignorance I assumed that it would then be translated to a 
<br>.  But perhaps it does insert a cr as you suggest below for the echo 
"stuff\n", and just produce a cr in the "source".  Hmm.  I wonder if 
there is a formal semantics anywhere for php.  Then I might stand a 
chance of understanding just how it works :-)

>>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 :)
>
I'm looking forward to it.

>>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 :)
>
I think you've just coined a great new term, like procedural but 
produces code which is then "cured" by a browser...

anyway, compared with my experience "developing" a web site with 
FrontPage it is bliss

>
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