anyone - help please.
i am a reasonably experienced visual objects programmer, but php is doing my head in as they say.

i copied some code from the manual: it does'nt work

<?php

    import_request_variables('p', 'F_');

    print "$F_REFBACK \n";
// the \n doesn't as they say
// from the manual
    print "This spans\nmultiple lines. The newlines will be\noutput as well.";
// well it doesn't - all on one line.

    print "$F_WHATDONE ";

.....
regards

Are there input elements in the form with the names/id "REFBACK" and "WHATDONE"? If so, is the form being POSTed?

A call to:

import_request_variables('p', 'F_');

Simply extracts all the posted values and appends an F-underscore to their names (which seems as useful as a chocolate teapot, to my way of thinking, but maybe it has some greater signifiance within the example you are reading). Which manual is this, anyway? the online manual doesn't list it...

Take it easy
Dan

dan

thanks for the reply.

the question is why isn't the /n working ?

to see details of the php setup i am using run
  http://www.tdoc.org.uk/huj11k933he3/...n/tdocrtr1.php

someone needs to write a decent beginners manual !

after about three hours struggling with very basic and wholly undocumented syntax i wrote as simailar and it works...

print( "Reference: $F_RESPONSE<BR>"); // entered reference

this seems to put the CRLF in properly
lets hope it works when i change this code to create a text file.

r

With TEXT files, you must use \n. You *can* use \n for writing to a .php page, but you'll have to convert the \ns to <br/>s with a function like nl2br().

$variable = "this\nspans\nmore\nthan\none\nline";
echo nl2br($variable);

HTH,

Snib

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snib

thank you very much for that simple answer.

may be the php manual could be updated....

r

still somethoing funny going on....

so here's the code

    $att_content .= "$tdoc_edi/n" ;
    $att_content .= "$tdoc_ver/n" ;
    $att_content .= "Despatched by: TDOC php script/n" ;
    $att_content .= "Despatch Date: $today<BR>" ;
    $att_content .= "SENDMODE: $tdoc_mode<BR>" ;


and here's the output.

TDOC EDI General Document/n426/nDespatched by: TDOC php script/nDespatch Date: 17/07/04
SENDMODE: Response
DOCSTART
Job Title: NDGH

so the BR's work, but the /n doesn't

please explain.

i want to generate this text and then email it as an attachment.

regards

sorry i meant to use \n's but still no CRLF inserted ??

WHY NOT ?

Sorry I didn't get to look at this again yesterday. You've got a lot of things going on on that Cobalt server, haven't you...

I'm a little confused by what you are trying to achieve. If you are struggling to obtain "CRLF"s (by which I take it you mean Visual basic style 'VBCRLF's) part of the trouble may be that you are only specifying a newline by inserting a '\n'. CRLF, on the other hand ('Carriage Return and Line Feed') is just that, a carriage return (represented by the escape-sequence '\r' in C-like languages like PHP) and a line feed: i.e. '\r\n'.

(Good grief! Your website's just offered me a free mouse mat!)

In Unix environments, only the '\n' is needed, but Windows uses both '\r\n' sequence to represent the end of a line. That may be part of your battle, but I still don't quite get what you are trying to achieve. Like I say, you're not getting "carriage return [i]&[/] line feed" simply because you're not specifying it.

Sorry I can't be much more help, with what you've told us so far.

Dan

Daniel

Sorry we are out of mouse mats (and have been for 5 years) - but its always better to have an offer !

thanks for the reply as well. we have an existing script that sends the data, but not in the neseaary EDI format (as developed by the UK's CITE => Construction Industry Trading Electronically).

did you see the section: Overview -> QuickLook -> General Documents -> EDI ? What I are trying to do is to generate the TGN file, shown as a txt one on the web site.

regards

richard

Well, is the problem simply the newlines, and if so, does using '\r\n' instead of just '\n' solve it?

dan