# Next Line

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/next-line/29990>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [September 2, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/next-line/29990 "2003-09-02T18:00:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![grandsp5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@grandsp5](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/grandsp5)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/next-line/29990/1 "2003-09-02T18:00:16Z")

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Ok so I have a working form that concatenates a bunch of variables together(thanks to digitalosophy and njs12345 for their help) My variable called $message ends up looking like this when I send it

Address: blah blah Name: blah blah Phone: blah blah

How do I put line breaks in between them so it looks like this

Address: blah blah  
Name: blah blah  
Phone: blah blah

if you need the php file itself, its in this forum under the title php parse error

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/next-line/29990/2 "2003-09-02T18:12:42Z")

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use the \< br\> tag or

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/next-line/29990/3 "2003-09-02T18:16:40Z")

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Syntax,  
Thank you but could you please be a little more specific? I am brand new to PHP. What would the formatting look like?

```php

$message = "Name :".$name."
" ;

```

is the line I have now. How would I change it?

PS - On a side not, what are the  
tags for?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/next-line/29990/4 "2003-09-02T18:20:18Z")

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if the $message variable will be printed on screen with an echo (like echo $message;) in a web page you can use

```php

$message = "Name :".$name."< br>"; 

```

use the \< br\> without the space betwen \< and b

the  
adds a line break

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/next-line/29990/5 "2003-09-02T18:22:29Z")

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hmm. Thats what I have now but for some reason it doesnt work.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/next-line/29990/6 "2003-09-02T18:22:43Z")

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or try this:

```php

$message= "Name:	$name
Email:	$email
Address:	$address

";

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/next-line/29990/7 "2003-09-02T18:27:31Z")

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i got it to work with the br tags. Thanks for all of your help.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/next-line/29990/8 "2003-09-02T18:31:13Z")

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no prob:)