Best way to print a new line to a txt file ?

[Jmacp]

I have this, and want to add a new line after each entry, ...?

<?php
         
$val = $_GET['data']; 

$myFile = "testFile.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a') or die("can't open file");

$stringData = $val;
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
          

fclose($fh); 
?>

[visualAd]

What does an entry look like? Ie: how would you know where to add a new line?

[Jmacp]

whoops sry, i meant after the,

fwrite($fh, $stringData); 

I tried a few variations such as,

fwrite($fh, $stringData); 
fwrite($fh, "\n"); 

and

fwrite($fh, $stringData + "\n"); 

and

fwrite($fh, "$stringData\n"); 

no joy though..

[visualAd]

In HTML a line break is "<br />".

[Jmacp]

Still can't get this simple thing working, i am taking in a query string and printing it to a text file,

<?php
   
$myFile = "testFile.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a') or die("can't open file");
$ref = $_GET['data']; 
      
$newline = "<br />";

 fwrite($fh,$ref.$newline);
 fclose($fh); 

?>

So the text file should look like

string1
string2
string3

but the above doesn't give that....

[visualAd]

If your file is on a windows computer, you need to use "\r\n" for newlines, if it is on a mac then you should use just "\r".

[Jmacp]

Let me try this another way.

I want to append the incoming data to a text file, at the moment, the data is following on after each other on the same line with a newline character inbetween.

so if i send
.php?name= bill then
.php?name= john then
.php?name= fred

then i want that saved to a text file like

bill
john
fred

at the moment its saving as

bill john fred the spaces being newline characters.

[visualAd]

Are you using Window or Linux, did you try \r\n.

Forget <br />, I thought you were trying to display newlines in an HTML document.