Question

I am having a rather simple question

can anyone tell me why this is not displaying each variable on a new line, well except for
the <br>.

$curtime = gmdate("d/m/Y H:i:s");
    //capture the PayPal returned information as order remarks
$oremarks =
"##$curtime##<br>".
"PayPal Transaction Information...\n".
"Txn Id: ".$ppInfo["txn_id"]."\n".
"Txn Type: ".$ppInfo["txn_type"]."\n".
"Item Number: ".$ppInfo["item_number"]."\n".
"Payment Date: ".$ppInfo["payment_date"]."\n".
"Payment Type: ".$ppInfo["payment_type"]."\n".
"Payment Status: ".$ppInfo["payment_status"]."\n".
"Currency: ".$ppInfo["mc_currency"]."\n".
"Payment Gross: ".$ppInfo["payment_gross"]."\n".
"Payment Fee: ".$ppInfo["payment_fee"]."\n".
"Payer Email: ".$ppInfo["payer_email"]."\n".
"Payer Id: ".$ppInfo["payer_id"]."\n".
"Payer Name: ".$ppInfo["first_name"]." ".$ppInfo["last_name"]."\n".
"Payer Status: ".$ppInfo["payer_status"]."\n".
"Country: ".$ppInfo["residence_country"]."\n".
"Business: ".$ppInfo["business"]."\n".
"Receiver Email: ".$ppInfo["receiver_email"]."\n".
"Receiver Id: ".$ppInfo["receiver_id"]."\n";

//Update database using $orderno, set status to Paid
//Send confirmation email to buyer and notification email to merchant
//Redirect to thankyou page
echo $oremarks;

thanks Richard

Answer 1

Carriage returns have no effect if you’re viewing this output as HTML, so try turning them into <br> tags with nl2br…

echo nl2br($oremarks);