Putting line breaks in text within a PHP array

Question

I have an array with a bunch of youtube video data that I call in a php file and populate a page. Basically in the array I have a lot of text ie a description of the video that I want to have line breaks.

Basically when I make this call, $description puts all the text on the same line, I want to make paragraphs or new lines on some of the text, but I'm not sure how to do that in the array.

<div class="transcription-container"><p class="transcription"><?php echo $**description** ?></p></div>

the array

    'youtube-video-key' => [
        'youtube-id' => 'aRtFSDvd5',
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        'title' => 'youtube-video-title',
        'url' => 'www.youtube.com/url',
        'time' => '1:59',
        'thumbnail' => '../../images/thumbnails/thumb2.jpg'
    ],

So in the array how would I go about putting new line breaks under 'description' ??

Are you trying to automatically format "description"?

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2015-02-27 20:25:30 +00:00
Commented Feb 27, 2015 at 20:25 — MegaAppBear
– MegaAppBear, Commented Feb 27, 2015 at 20:25

Michał Zapatka · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-27 20:17:37Z

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You can use \n as follows:

'youtube-video-key' => [
    'youtube-id' => 'aRtFSDvd5',
    '**description**' => 'one line \n second line'     
    'title' => 'youtube-video-title',
    'url' => 'www.youtube.com/url',
    'time' => '1:59',
    'thumbnail' => '../../images/thumbnails/thumb2.jpg'
],

answered Feb 27, 2015 at 20:17

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kainaw Over a year ago

If the transcription class is not preformatted text, you will want to use nl2br to convert the newlines to break tags.

Ilyas · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-27 20:22:33Z

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In php you work with browsers, so you need to slip in "
" tag where you need a new line instead of "\n"

For example :

< ?php 
foreach ($myarray as $a){
    echo $a . "<br>";
}

answered Feb 27, 2015 at 20:22

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MegaAppBear Over a year ago

PHP have nothing to do with browsers. HTML on the other hand does.

DevDonkey · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-27 20:16:48Z

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You just need to put

"\n"

In your string. Note that you must use double quotes.

So

"some text here\n will put in a line\nbreak";

answered Feb 27, 2015 at 20:16

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anthony Over a year ago

I tried this, because in my mind thats what I was taught but it isn't working, nothing is being changed. i even put like \n\n\n\n\n and nothing happens.

Gerardlamo · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-27 20:26:40Z

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You can just use \n which is converted to a line break when viewed. so:

description => "alot of text.... and some more/nThen on the next line",

answered Feb 27, 2015 at 20:26

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MilanG · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-27 20:27:30Z

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Not sure do you want to have text in multiple line in web browser (HTML) or new lines in page source.

But anyway, you have to make up your mind - what text should represent new line (in your example code it's double space character, but not sure is it just example - can be something else) and search/replace it with "\n" if you want to have source well formatted or with <br/> tag if you want to have new line in the browser.

answered Feb 27, 2015 at 20:27

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