When do I use the PHP constant “PHP_EOL”?

Question

When is it a good idea to use PHP_EOL?

I sometimes see this in code samples of PHP. Does this handle DOS/Mac/Unix endline issues?

Answer 1

When jumi (joomla plugin for PHP) compiles your code for some reason it removes all backslashes from your code. Such that something like $csv_output .= "\n"; becomes $csv_output .= "n";

Very annoying bug!

Use PHP_EOL instead to get the result you were after.