Elegant solution for line-breaks (PHP)

Question

$var = \"Hi there\".\"
\".\"Welcome to my website\".\"
;\"
echo $var;

Is there an elegant way to handle line-breaks in PHP? I\'

Answer 1

\n didn't work for me. the \n appear in the bodytext of the email I was sending.. this is how I resolved it.

str_pad($input, 990); //so that the spaces will pad out to the 990 cut off.