'Is there a way to force a new line after php closing tag ?> when embedded among html?

I have been searching online with little success for a way to force php to output a newline after a closing php tag ?> so that my HTML will be rendered as I see it before its parsed by PHP so that it will look neat and tidy when viewing the html source code for a page.

I want to stop it from removing the newline and causing the next line from wrapping up and therefore ruining the format of the page. Is there a specific php.ini setting I can change to disable this behaviour?

All my code logic files have ?> removed from the end of them so I wont need to worry about them injecting extra newlines which is why I believe PHP was coded to strip the trailing new lines.

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Solution 1:[1]

This is an old question, but to keep the new line, simply place a space after the closing tag.

Source: http://php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.instruction-separation.php

Solution 2:[2]

There is no way to change this behavior. To make it clear what's happening, I always explicitly put the newline character in my template files.

Hello,    

Foo: <?php echo $foo."\n"; ?>
Bar: <?php echo $foo."\n"; ?>

This concludes foo and bar.

Outputs:

Hello,    

Foo: foo
Bar: bar

This concludes foo and bar.

Solution 3:[3]

You can try this:

echo "output \n";

or even this much less elegant technique:

echo "output
";

Please paste some example code snippet to get more specific help.

Solution 4:[4]

You can't always just start a block level element after the php tag.

Sometimes, you are generating plain text for inside a textarea.

Other times, you are not generating HTML strings at all.

  • SQL statement
  • email body
  • other non-HTML strings

Solution 5:[5]

My compulsive habits drive me to similar goals. Sadly, there is no elegant solution for this. Two suggestions:

  1. Output a newline character where you want to break the HTML code like so:

    echo 'Hello World'.chr(10);

  2. PHP's 'echo' command is not an actual function so you cannot override it; however, you could create a wrapper and use that instead:

    function myecho($string, $newline=true)
{
   echo $string;
   if($newline)
      echo chr(10);
}

Neither solution is elegant, but then again, neither is the HTML output if you don't add line breaks.

Solution 6:[6]

You can make this slightly more elegant:

<?=$var.PHP_EOL?>

But in the end this is just a missing feature: If you're not in HTML/XML-context, just want to output simple, pure text you WANT to output the text "as is" and not have magically stripped the newlines away.

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Solution 1 atw527
Solution 2 marcovtwout
Solution 3 erenon
Solution 4 Alex
Solution 5 Jonesy
Solution 6 ssilk

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