removing \r\n from form generated email

[Thumper]

My web site has a Contact page but the emails I receive from it are one long string interspersed with \r\n instead of newLine characters where appropriate.  How do I resolve this?

[LooieENG]

Try the nl2br() function

[resago]

try "" instead of ' '

 

[Thumper]

Tried the nl2br() function but still getting the same result.  e.g. if i enter...

Hi,

Love the site,

Dave.

...and hit enter, I get "Hi,\r\nLove the site,\r\nDave." in my email.

 

The code is quite simple :

 

if (isset($_POST['submit']))	 // Handle the form.
{
		// Check for an email address.
	if (eregi ("^[[:alnum:]][a-z0-9_.-]*@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$", stripslashes(trim($_POST['email'])))) {
		$e = escape_data($_POST['email']);
	} else {
		$e = FALSE;
		echo '<p><font color="red" size="+1">Please enter a valid email address!</font></p>';
	}

		// Check for a subject line.

		if (!(trim($_POST['subject'])==""))
		{
			$s = escape_data($_POST['subject']);
		}
		else
		{
		$s = FALSE;
		echo '<p><font color="red" size="+1">Please enter a valid subject line!</font></p>';
		}

		// Check for text in the comments box.

		if (!(trim($_POST['comments'])==""))
		{
			$c = escape_data($_POST['comments']);
		}
		else
		{
		$c = FALSE;
		echo '<p><font color="red" size="+1">Please enter your comments!</font></p>';
		}

	#############################################
		if ($e && $s && $c)	#	everything is okay...
	#############################################
		{
			$MailTo=$adminEmail;
			if (mail($MailTo, $s, nl2br($c), "From: $e"))
		}
}

[resago]

what do you get if you don't escape the comment?

 

[DarkWater]

They should appear as newlines in the e-mail client.

[Thumper]

I removed the "escape_data" function and now i get <br /> on the end of each line, e.g.:

Hi,<br />

Love the site,<br />

Dave.<br />

 

Any more suggestion, guys?  Please.

[MatthewJ]

How about

 

$array = array("\r\n", "\n\r", "\n", "\r");
$var = str_replace($array, "<br />", $var);

 

[Thumper]

That should have read...

removed the "escape_data" function and now i get

<br />

on the end of each line, e.g.:

Hi,<br />
Love the site,<br />
Dave.br />

 

Any more suggestion, guys?  Please.

[marcus]

You need to make the message read HTML using the mail headers.

[Thumper]

Thanks to one and all - I've now got this working as required.

See you all again soon,

Dave.