Line break in PHP - php

Question

I am trying to create a newline character in my foreach loop. After the URL I am trying to create a newline and then have a "------" between the title and content. After this there is supposed to be a space between the next URL. I have the space but I can't seem to get the line break. When I echo "\t" or "\n" in the loop nothing happens. When I use HTML in the loop it won't work, gives too many spaces.
for($i=0; $i < 4 ;$i++)
{
foreach ($json as $URL)
{
echo $URL ['results'][$i]['url'];
echo "---------------";
foreach ($json as $TITLE)
{
echo $TITLE ['results'][$i]['title'];
echo "--------";
}
foreach ($json as $content)
echo $content['results'][$i]['content'];
echo "---------------- ";
}
}
Is there a function in php besides "\n" or another way of manipulating the HTML to insert the line break?
TIA

Answer 1

There are two things you can do:
1: Use <br> as line break. If you use that, you should also consider using <hr> to insert the horizontal line.
some text<br>
<hr>
some other text<br>
2: Use <pre> and </pre> tags around your text to output preformatted text. You can then use \n and \t to format your text.
<pre>
some text\n
-------\n
some other text\n
</pre>

Answer 2

This might the one you are searching for
for($i=0; $i < 4 ;$i++)
{
foreach ($json as $URL)
{
echo $URL ['results'][$i]['url'];
echo "<br/>";
echo "---------------";
foreach ($json as $TITLE)
{
echo $TITLE ['results'][$i]['title'];
echo "--------";
}
foreach ($json as $content)
echo $content['results'][$i]['content'];
echo "---------------- ";
}
}

Answer 3

\n doesn't work in HTML. If you view source of the document you will however see the line breaks. Use html markup like
Test line break<br />
<p>paragraph</p>
<p>paragraph</p>

Answer 4

Simply add <br /> to echo statements. as in html we use this for line breaks.
echo "Content"."<br />";
This would give line breaks in HTML format.

Answer 5

use
echo "<br />";
instead of
echo "---------------- ";

Answer 6

Use echo '';
<?php
echo "first line.<br />Second line.';
?>
or nl2br() function,
<?php
echo nl2br("first line.\nSecond line.");
?>

Answer 7

You can consider
echo "<hr /> ";