Question

I have a page written with php where, for some reason, all of the plain html content of the file index.php goes on one line (look at the source) The white space is preserved, but all the new-lines disappear.

I cannot come up with any reason why this would happen, short of a syntax error, but I went through with a fine toothed comb, and found nothing out of place. This only happens on the index.php page.

Anyone have any Ideas what I should be looking for? I can post more code if necessary.

<?php
//...
include('ssi/header.php');
?>

<div>
  <section id="charters">
    <h2><a href="charters.php">Tanker Chartering</a></h2>
     <!-- ... -->

The above code evaluates to something like this:

<div>      <section id="charters">        <h2><a href="charters.php">Tanker ...

Answer 1

Maybe you have linux server and you’re using windows system. Different operating systems use different new line characters. Also, for one server my FTP client uploaded it with wrong formatting, and missed every line break.

Also applications like
Notepad++ gives you the ability to change formatting and linebreaks.