trouble with echo <br />

[Khai]

I'm an extreme newbie, and have been nosing around the PHP.Net site for a
few days. Only, the search function returns alot of information that's not
truly relevant due to Coding samples at the bottom of the pages.

What I'm trying to determine is :

Which is better for printing info to a page based on dynamic variables?
IE - if I have a boolean = True, should I use PrintF, print, echo to spit
out the info?

Also, when I use either, and have a <br /> in the statement, it puts <br>
instead, and I can't for the life of me get it to put /> there at the end.

And one more thing (begins a rambling rant o questions), the syntax for
boolean use (basic format?)

I used
$good = TRUE

if($good == TRUE) { echo "blah <br />" } and it doesn't seem to trigger.

If I use = TRUE, it triggers, but i think that's wrong for some reason.

-Khai

[Colin Fine]

Khai wrote:

Man, you were so right. AS soon as I saw the first Try $good = TRUE; it
dawned on me that I never set the $good to anything except FALSE. So when
it was testing for $good == TRUE it was coming up false, because $good was
never ever set to true, it was just an empty var. *smacks forhead*.

However, I changed my echo setup and went with escaping to HTML, IE:

<?php if ($good = TRUE) { ?>
blah blah <br />
<?php }; ?>

THat seems to work better, but still having issues getting the <br />
instead of the <br> it keeps punching out. Perhaps it's just in cache and I
need to clear it.

How do you know it is producing <br>? Where are you looking at it?
It looks as if something along the way is rewriting your XHTML as HTML.

Colin

[Khai]

"Colin Fine" <ne**@kindness. demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:dn******** ***********@new s.demon.co.uk.. .

How do you know it is producing <br>? Where are you looking at it?
It looks as if something along the way is rewriting your XHTML as HTML.

Colin

I'm looking at the output in the browser (FireFox), and then view source.

My code is simply an <?php IF ( ) { ?> html code <br /> <?php } ?> to
generate an output. I've also tried echo, and print_f and when I look at the
output in a browser, via view source, it changes the <br /> to a <br>

*screaming and losing hair*

-khai

[Lars Eighner]

In our last episode,
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the lovely and talented Khai
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"Colin Fine" <ne**@kindness. demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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How do you know it is producing <br>? Where are you looking at it?
It looks as if something along the way is rewriting your XHTML as HTML.

Colin

I'm looking at the output in the browser (FireFox), and then view source. My code is simply an <?php IF ( ) { ?> html code <br /> <?php } ?> to
generate an output. I've also tried echo, and print_f and when I look at the
output in a browser, via view source, it changes the <br /> to a <br> *screaming and losing hair*

I don't understand why that outputs anything.

() should never be true, so if() should never execute whatever
is in the brackets.

if(1) outputs

html code <br />

but that isn't an html document, and in any event
my firefox doesn't change the <br /> to <br>
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[Colin Fine]

Khai wrote:

"Colin Fine" <ne**@kindness. demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:dn******** ***********@new s.demon.co.uk.. .

How do you know it is producing <br>? Where are you looking at it?
It looks as if something along the way is rewriting your XHTML as HTML.

Colin

I'm looking at the output in the browser (FireFox), and then view source.

My code is simply an <?php IF ( ) { ?> html code <br /> <?php } ?> to
generate an output. I've also tried echo, and print_f and when I look at the
output in a browser, via view source, it changes the <br /> to a <br>

*screaming and losing hair*

-khai

That's my point. By that time your output has gone through your server
and your browser. Have you looked at it with a different browser? (I'm
not aware that Firefox or any other browser alters the source it
receives when you ask to see it, but it's not impossible).

Is there a way you can look at it as it leaves your server (I admit I
can't quite see how).

Colin

[Colin Fine]

Lars Eighner wrote:

In our last episode,
<We************ ********@comcas t.com>,
the lovely and talented Khai
broadcast on comp.lang.php:

"Colin Fine" <ne**@kindness. demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:dn****** *************@n ews.demon.co.uk ...

How do you know it is producing <br>? Where are you looking at it?
It looks as if something along the way is rewriting your XHTML as HTML.

Colin

I'm looking at the output in the browser (FireFox), and then view source.

My code is simply an <?php IF ( ) { ?> html code <br /> <?php } ?> to
generate an output. I've also tried echo, and print_f and when I look at the
output in a browser, via view source, it changes the <br /> to a <br>

*screaming and losing hair*

I don't understand why that outputs anything.

() should never be true, so if() should never execute whatever
is in the brackets.

if(1) outputs

html code <br />

but that isn't an html document, and in any event
my firefox doesn't change the <br /> to <br>

I think you are being excessively literal, Lars. The word 'an' implies
that the code he just quoted is a schema, not the whole of the code.

Colin