pingdom PHP script help

[Lilrich]

Hello,

I am trying to create a Script that will grab the checks from Pingdom and output them into a page on my website http://oswestryweather.co.uk/station-status/, i have got the script to grab the checks from Pingdom and print them onto the page however for some reason they won't display on a seperate line, the script i am using can be found here http://pastie.org/2187445

Does anyone know why this might not be puitting all my outputs onto sepearate lines?

Thanks

Richard

[Harrison H.]

It's been a long time since I've worked with PHP/HTML, but try <br> instead of \n.

[threetonesun]

Well, it is inserting the newlines in your code, if you look at the source it looks like this:

Website & Account Centre is down
Server 1 is up
Server 2 is up
Server 3 is up
[/CODE]

What you need is a <br> tag to actually separate it in display.

[Lilrich]

  On 08/08/2012 at 13:18, threetonesun said:

Well, it is inserting the newlines in your code, if you look at the source it looks like this:

Website & Account Centre is down
Server 1 is up
Server 2 is up
Server 3 is up
[/CODE]

What you need is a <br> tag to actually separate it in display.

Well that is interesting, where would i put the BR code in the PHP file to get it to display correctly? If i just go ahead and add <br /> into the php it will error won't it.

[Phouchg]

Exactly. Newlines (and PHP_EOL constant, actually, to be consistent among platforms) are for working with text files. Tags are required for browser output.

But please use <br /> if this is going into production somewhere - gotta have standards, you know :)

print "Error: " . $response['error']['errormessage'] . '<br />';

[threetonesun]

  On 08/08/2012 at 13:29, Phouchg said:

But please use <br /> if this is going into production somewhere - gotta have standards, you know :)

Well, if the standard is HTML, not XHTML, then <br> is fine. ;)

[Lilrich]

  On 08/08/2012 at 13:29, Phouchg said:

Exactly. Newlines (and PHP_EOL constant, actually, to be consistent among platforms) are for working with text files. Tags are required for browser output.

But please use <br /> if this is going into production somewhere - gotta have standards, you know :)

print "Error: " . $response['error']['errormessage'] . '<br />';

+Pouchg you are a star, that has solved it. I wounder why

/n[/CODE]

wasn't working? Does it not work on [u][b]ALL[/b][/u] browsers?

[threetonesun]

  On 08/08/2012 at 13:48, Lilrich said:

+Pouchg you are a star, that has solved it. I wounder why

/n[/CODE]

wasn't working? Does it not work on [u][b]ALL[/b][/u] browsers?

It was working, it's just if you write

a paragraph

like this

in HTML

the web browser doesn't care, and puts it all on one line.

[Lilrich]

I still might be acting really thick here, according to the php manual /n is for creating new lines, from my understanding after posting here this is only for creating new lines in a text output? If i want a browser to render the line break i need to specify that with < br /> is that correct?

[azspeedbullet]

  On 08/08/2012 at 13:55, Lilrich said:

I still might be acting really thick here, according to the php manual /n is for creating new lines, from my understanding after posting here this is only for creating new lines in a text output? If i want a browser to render the line break i need to specify that with < br /> is that correct?

yes

[threetonesun]

  On 08/08/2012 at 13:55, Lilrich said:

I still might be acting really thick here, according to the php manual /n is for creating new lines, from my understanding after posting here this is only for creating new lines in a text output? If i want a browser to render the line break i need to specify that with < br /> is that correct?

Yes, and if you want your code to render with breaks, you'd use both \n and <br>

[Phouchg]

  On 08/08/2012 at 14:01, threetonesun said:

Yes, and if you want your code to render with breaks, you'd use both \n and <br>

Or nl2br()

[Lilrich]

Thanks guys, i don't suppose anyone knows how to add response time & uptime to that script using the Pingdom API?