Why exactly do some many PHP scripts use both when outputting data? Don't they do the same thing?

Where is the \n in that query?

Where is the \n in that query?

The MySQLI query? That's just my forum signature. It has nothing to do with what I'm asking.

You want the long answer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline

Oh I didn't know it was your signature

You want the long answer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline

Short answer, simplicity. Lets you run it on different platforms and are ignored by ones that don't understand.

Oh I didn't know it was your signature

Yeah, its pretty hard to tell, especially with this being a coding forums (and code in signature). All thats there is the short line >.<

As for outputting you're data, unless its on cli you don't need line feeds at all. They just make you're source code look nice :)

Thanks:)