newline - PHP Linefeeds ( ) Not Working

Question

For some reason I can't use to create a linefeed when outputting to a file with PHP. It just writes " " to the file. I've tried using "\n" as well, where it just writes " " (as expected). But I can't for the life of me figure out why adding to my strings isn't creating new lines. I've also tried but it just appends " " to the line in the file.

Example:

error_log('test
', 3, 'error.log');
error_log('test2
', 3, 'error.log');

Outputs:

test
test2

Using MAMP on OSX in case that matters (some sort of PHP config thing maybe?).

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Use double quotes. "test " will work just fine (Or, use 'test' . PHP_EOL).

If the string is enclosed in double-quotes ("), PHP will interpret more escape sequences for special characters:

http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php