When do I use PHP_EOL instead of \n and vice-versa ? Ajax/Jquery client problem

Question

I have a php parser that split a given string by line-breaks, doing something like this:

$lines = explode(PHP_EOL,$content);

The parser wor

Answer 1

IMHO using PHP_EOL is preferable

to ensure consistency between PHP and JS handling of line break, you may want to define end-of-line variable in JS using PHP_EOL

var eol = '';

afterwards, use eol for splitting submitted textarea content