PHP new lines in a text file

Question

I am trying to add a new line to a text file in php

I current have the following line of code

file_put_contents($_SESSION["name"].'.txt', $_POST["item"]."\n", FILE_APPEND);

The goal of this line is to add a new file to a text file associated with a user. It works fine. However I need the text to display on separate lines

I want the text file to look like this

item1
item2
item3
etc..

right now it looks like item1item2item3etc...

how do I get the new line to show up in the text file?

If you're viewing this file in a browser, you're not seeing those newlines because HTML ignores them. — grossvogel
– grossvogel, Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 23:05
Yes, view the source of the page. How do you want to display them? — AbraCadaver
– AbraCadaver, Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 23:06
I am not I am viewing them in a plain text file. I am running this on my local machine. I am not going to ever make it public so I am just saving some amounts of data to text files — Andrew Dawson
– Andrew Dawson, Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 23:06
I just did it and I have 5 lines of text. So it may be your text editor that is not reading it right. — Tim Withers
– Tim Withers, Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 23:07

user1237595 · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-22 23:10:26Z

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Try using \r\n instead otherwise the line breaks will not show in some systems / apps.

answered Nov 22, 2013 at 23:10

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user1237595 Over a year ago

Yes, \r is an escape character so will be fine.

cen · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-22 23:11:43Z

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<?php
file_put_contents("test.txt", "item".PHP_EOL, FILE_APPEND);
file_put_contents("test.txt", "item".PHP_EOL, FILE_APPEND);
file_put_contents("test.txt", "item".PHP_EOL, FILE_APPEND);
?>

Output test.txt:

item
item
item

PHP_EOL is cross platform and will work on Linux/Windows (does not matter where you run the code).

answered Nov 22, 2013 at 23:11

cen

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