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Putting line breaks in text within a PHP array

I have an array with a bunch of youtube video data that I call in a php file and populate a page. Basically in the array I have a lot of text ie a description of the video that I want to have line breaks.

Basically when I make this call, $description puts all the text on the same line, I want to make paragraphs or new lines on some of the text, but I'm not sure how to do that in the array. 

<div class="transcription-container"><p class="transcription"><?php echo $**description** ?></p></div>

the array

    'youtube-video-key' => [
        'youtube-id' => 'aRtFSDvd5',
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        'title' => 'youtube-video-title',
        'url' => 'www.youtube.com/url',
        'time' => '1:59',
        'thumbnail' => '../../images/thumbnails/thumb2.jpg'
    ],

So in the array how would I go about putting new line breaks under 'description' ??

Solution

  • You can use \n as follows:

    'youtube-video-key' => [
    'youtube-id' => 'aRtFSDvd5',
    '**description**' => 'one line \n second line'     
    'title' => 'youtube-video-title',
    'url' => 'www.youtube.com/url',
    'time' => '1:59',
    'thumbnail' => '../../images/thumbnails/thumb2.jpg'
],