PHP ascii character problems

Lemming

Hey guys,

I've a php script logging some information to a plain text file. This needs to be read by a windows machine.

I'm logging uid, date and time and then doing a carriage return/newline.

so the code looks alittle like this:

$fileUpdate = $gmsCode." - ".getSysDate().chr(13) ;

If I view the log file via browser everything is rosy, but if I try to open the file in a non-*nix environment (ie. Windows), I get the carriage returns printed as little blocks and it's all one big string.

Any suggestions?

hussey

try adding in a line feed also
cause chr$(13) is just carriage return
chr$(10)

Lemming

Nope. Still no joy.

Even sticking in chr(10) as well doesn't do the job.

Under windows, I'm still looking at one big uber-string

dahamsta

Unix systems use a CR to jump to a new line, whereas Windows expects a CR-LF pair. (CR being a Carriage Return: ASCII 13, \r; LF being a Line Feed or newline: ASCII 10, \n.) If you want the file to view correctly in Windows, send \r\n. Make sure \r\n is in double quotes, otherwise it'll be output literally.

$fileUpdate = "$gmsCode - " . getSysDate() . "\r\n";

adam

Lemming

Cheers adam!

sorted.

I appended .(chr(13).chr(10)) ; to the end of the line

Note, incidentally the "\r\n" doesn't work. Even chr(13).chr(10) doesn't work unless you put a paranthesis around the two of them.

Kev

Originally posted by dahamsta
Unix systems use a CR to jump to a new line, whereas Windows expects a CR-LF pair. (CR being a Carriage Return: ASCII 13, \r; LF being a Line Feed or newline: ASCII 10, \n.)

that should be "Unix systems use a LF"

dahamsta

Don't you just hate it when you spend ages trying to get a post right, only to have a simple error pointed out when you're done. Yes, Kev is right, it should have been an LF. Bum.

adam