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There is a PHP function called 'nl2br' that will convert newlines '\n' to '&lt;br&gt;'. &nbsp;<a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php" rel="ugc">http://php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php</a>
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There is a PHP function called 'nl2br' that will convert newlines '\n' to '<br>'.  http://php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php [http://php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php]

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I tried that, but it just adds a &lt;br&gt; to the \n so on the command line you still have both.
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I tried that, but it just adds a <br> to the \n so on the command line you still have both.

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You have to write code to decide when to use it. &nbsp;There is nothing automatic in PHP that will know how it is being run and make that change for you.
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You have to write code to decide when to use it.  There is nothing automatic in PHP that will know how it is being run and make that change for you.

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Thanks, didn't know if you could program something to see if you were using the command line or if using a webpage. &nbsp;CSS can recognize the browser size to make changes, so didn't know if PHP could do something similar.
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Thanks, didn't know if you could program something to see if you were using the command line or if using a webpage.  CSS can recognize the browser size to make changes, so didn't know if PHP could do something similar.

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This may &nbsp;not be the proper place to ask this, but in PHP is there a way to swap from &lt;&nbsp;br &gt;&nbsp;to \n depending on where you are running the script? &nbsp;I'd like the &lt;&nbsp;br &gt;&nbsp;to look correctly formatted if running the script on a webpage, but then I want the \n to look correctly when running it in a command prompt.
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This may  not be the proper place to ask this, but in PHP is there a way to swap from < br > to \n depending on where you are running the script?  I'd like the < br > to look correctly formatted if running the script on a webpage, but then I want the \n to look correctly when running it in a command prompt.

Swap &lt; br &gt; with \n based on where PHP is ran

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Swap &lt; br &gt; with \n based on where PHP is ran

Swap < br > with \n based on where PHP is ran