Can you explain the difference between physical and virtual line breaks in PHP and how they impact text display?

In PHP, physical line breaks are created using the newline character "\n" and are visible in the source code. Virtual line breaks, on the other hand, are created using HTML tags like "<br>" and are rendered as line breaks in the displayed text. Physical line breaks are useful for formatting code while virtual line breaks are used for formatting text output on a webpage. 

&lt;?php
// Using physical line breaks
$text = &quot;This is a line with a physical line break\nThis is the next line&quot;;
echo $text;

// Using virtual line breaks
$text = &quot;This is a line with a virtual line break&lt;br&gt;This is the next line&quot;;
echo $text;
?&gt;

Keywords

PHP physical line breaks virtual line breaks text display newline characters

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