Line Break In Alert Box Based On Php Variable - Solved With Thanks

[niche]

How do I get the line break to work in an alert box based on data from this php variable?

<?php$myPhpVar = '"Hello again! This is how we" . "\n" . "add line breaks to an alert box!"';echo '<script type="text/javascript">';echo 'alert(' . $myPhpVar . ');';echo '</script>';?>

[JamesB]

for multi line strings in js you can do:

var str = 'abcde\fghij'

so the real \n gets escaped with a \ this should work:

echo 'alert(' . str_replace("\n", "\\\n", $myPhpVar) . ');';

[Ingolme]

Instead of "\n", use single-quotes so that it's not parsed: '\n' The alternative is to escape the backslash: "\\n"

[dsonesuk]

Just use it as would in javascript outputted text $myPhpVar = '"Hello again! This is how we\n add line breaks to an alert box!"';

[niche]

That's what I needed. Thanks JamesB,Ingolme, and dsonesuk. Niche