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"PHP, help anyone???"

I would just like to ask a little help from anyone who knows anything about PHP.
have a script that writes to text files, but where I want it to write to a new line (I use n for that) but when I download the file, where the line breaks are supposed to go, there are black boxxes, and no line break hss occured.

Anyone know why this maybe??? I would greatly appreceate any feedback and help

Thanks in advance...

- Chris

Basically, PHP is using a Unix charset, as opposed to a standar Windows one.

Wordpad will open your files fine

When you write to a new line you are using \n which is the newline character for unix. Try using \r\n and this may solve your problem. \r is a carriage return which a PC will recognise.

I use the FTP facility in Internet Explorer 5.5, so do you know how to switch between binary and ASCII in IE 5.5???

Thanks...

I think your problem is that you are uploading in your ftp program as binary whereas you should be uploading as ascii. (Or it may be the other way around). Just do the other one.
Steve.

Thanks...

I'm no PHP guru or anything but it sounds like they're control characters of some kind. I've seen it before in other situations. It's something to do with the codepage the writer is using not being the same as the codepage the reader is using (does that make sense?).

Could be a number of reasons and fixes.

Could be something as easy as opening the file in Wordpad instead of Notepad, or something as mad as changing the conflicting codepages. One way round it that I've seen is using the ascii value of a line break in the code, rather than what you're using at the moment.

Perhaps someone else can shed some more light on it.
cheers
ajg

I would just like to ask a little help from anyone who knows anything about PHP.
have a script that writes to text files, but where I want it to write to a new line (I use n for that) but when I download the file, where the line breaks are supposed to go, there are black boxxes, and no line break hss occured.

Anyone know why this maybe??? I would greatly appreceate any feedback and help

Thanks in advance...

- Chris