is there a way to get codeigniter to create a plain text page where \n char works properly?

Question

I am trying to use vanilla forum with proxyconnect and it requires i give it a plain text file of my user's authentication cookie values in the form below. However, when i send it the only way i can get it to work is with the
tags and i needs to have the \n tag.

document should be:

UniqueID=5
Name=Kyle
[email protected]

I can get it to display like that with br tags but when i use \n tags they show up like this:

UniqueID=5\nName=Kyle\[email protected]

here is the method in the controller

function get_user_info(){
  if(!empty($this->user)){
   printf('UniqueID=' . $this->user['userID'] . '\n');
   printf('Name=' . $this->user['userFirst'] . '\n');
   printf('Email=' . $this->user['userEmail'] . '\n');
  }
 }

Answer 1

Try to use use "\n" with double quotes instead. Special characters will not be expanded when they occur in single quoted strings.

Example

printf('Name=' . $this->user['userFirst'] . "\n");