I have been trying to use newline operators and tabs in the error_log() function but for some reason they are treated as literals and I can not get newlines written into the logfile nor tabs.

as you can see bellow I have tried it with an array element and a string also with \r\n or \n or \\n or \n\n.. no joy I just get everything appended to the same line.. shame


//example line: error_log($error[0|1][n],3,$errorLog);
// timestamp for the error entry
$dt = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");


///////////////
$error[0][0]	= '\t' .$dt. 'Failure: capture HTTP page request variable\n';//mark [FATAL]
//$error[1][0]	= '\t' .$dt. 'Success: capture HTTP page request variable\n';
$errorString	= '\t' .$dt. '\tSuccess: capture HTTP page request variable\r\n';
$error[0][1]	= '\t' .$dt. 'Failure: capture HTTP method request variable\n';//mark [WARNING]

//script excerpt

if ($request = getenv('REQUEST_URI')) {
	error_log($errorString,3,$errorLog);
}//end if($request..
else {
	error_log($error[0][0],3,$errorLog);
}//end else