Missing new lines sometimes

[TedT]

Hi,

I am not a PHP programmer, but have been trying to get a contact form to work on my website.  The PHP script for sending the form is from a public site.  It gets user input and emails it.

 

The problem is sometimes the email has the user input on seprate lines, and sometimes 2 or more lines are run together making it hard to read.

 

The code has a period at the end of each line (and I can't find any PHP info to say why).  Here is the the email code:

 

$messageproper =

 

"This message was sent from:\n" .

"$http_referrer\n" .

"------------------------------------------------------------\n" .

"Name of sender: $name\n" .

"Company Name: $company\n" .

"Phone: $phone\n" .

"Email of sender: $email\n" .

"Email confirmation: $emailconfirm\n" .

"Heard of us through: $through\n" .

"Add to mailing list: $mailinglist\n" .

"Is this a technical problem: $techproblem\n" .

"------------------------- COMMENTS -------------------------\n\n" .

$comments .

"\n\n------------------------------------------------------------\n" ;

 

mail($mailto, $subject, $messageproper,

 

Are the periods a mistake an causng problems?  Sometime 3 lines are all run together in the email, sometimes it is OK.

Thanks for any help.

Ted

[hansford]

the periods(.) are whats holding the string together. Try replaceing the \n with <br> if displaying in html pages.

[tapos]

try replacing \n with <br />, but when u need to send a html mail.

a suggession for u, try to use PHPMailer to send mail http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com/

[hansford]

Perfect - phpmailer is great and easy.