shadiadiph Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 problem is I have a message page where the user submits a message. it then posts the info to a confirmation page which i am having to post the info to the confirm page using $message = (nl2br($_POST["message"])); in order to retain the text format then from that page it submits to a submit email page where I use. $message = ($_POST["message"]); to get the message data and thre email sends fine. But from this page it also saved the data to the database so it can be resent if need be. Problem is when I am using $message = $row["message"]; the message on thre resend page displays Line 1<br /> Line 2 How can I get rid of the <br /> is there any function to strip this when displaying? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/141537-solved-problem-with-nl2br-function/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Dont do nl2br before inserting the data. It is better to keep the data in it's raw format and only use nl2br when displaying. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/141537-solved-problem-with-nl2br-function/#findComment-740849 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadiadiph Posted January 20, 2009 Author Share Posted January 20, 2009 mm ow in the post lines i am not using it anywhere only in the display problem is when i send it in the message. as only $message in the email recieved there are no breaks how do i use this part to make it diplay breaks correctly in what has been sent just using (nl2br($message)) doesn't work? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/141537-solved-problem-with-nl2br-function/#findComment-740852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 mm ow in the post lines i am not using it anywhere only in the display problem is when i send it in the message. as only $message in the email recieved there are no breaks how do i use this part to make it diplay breaks correctly in what has been sent just using (nl2br($message)) doesn't work? You either need to send the email using the regular line breaks (no nl2br) or send it with HTML headers for it to display properly with using nl2br. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/141537-solved-problem-with-nl2br-function/#findComment-740853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadiadiph Posted January 20, 2009 Author Share Posted January 20, 2009 on thre confirm page it displays perfectly using <tr><td><font style='font-size: 13px' style='font-family: Tahoma, Arial'><?=(nl2br($message))?></font></td></tr> then post it to the next page and is gotten by plain old $message = ($_POST["message"]); and further down submitted using $to = "$emailcl"; $subject = "$subj"; $MsgHeader = "From: COMPANY NAME. <$email> \n"; $MsgHeader .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; $MsgHeader .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"; $MsgBody = " <html> <head> <title>HTML message</title> </head> <body> <tr><td><font style='font-size: 13px' style='font-family: Tahoma, Arial'>$message</font></td></tr> </body> </html>"; mail($to, $subject, $MsgBody, $MsgHeader); sends fine but what is revceived looks terrible Blank Email Message Testing Final Run Line 1 Blank Email Message Testing Final Run Line 2 space before this one and line one. should be like this Blank Email Message Testing Final Run Line 1 Blank Email Message Testing Final Run Line 2 space before this one and line one. why is it making it into one line i don't get it?? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/141537-solved-problem-with-nl2br-function/#findComment-740861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Let me get this right - you have three steps. step 1: user submits message step 2: message is outputted to screen, where user checks message, then submits it step 3: message is sent by email, and saved to the database for future reference. Do this: * At the beginning of step 2, save the unedited contents of the message to a session variable. * Next, run the contents of the variable through the nl2br() function, and output it to the screen (unedited original contents are still contained in the session variable * At the top of step 3, send the mail using the unedited contents of the session variable, and input that same unedited information into the database (don't use nl2br()) * If in the future you pull the information out of the database to display to the screen, run in through the nl2br() function after pulling it out of the database. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/141537-solved-problem-with-nl2br-function/#findComment-740881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadiadiph Posted January 20, 2009 Author Share Posted January 20, 2009 I am doing just that I only display on the confirmation page using nl2br() function from there is goes to the submit page using $message = ($_POST["message"]); it is passed to the submit page from the confirmation page by <input type="hidden" name="message" value="<?=$message?>" /> but when the email is sent using $message it comes out to the user as one long line??? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/141537-solved-problem-with-nl2br-function/#findComment-740900 Share on other sites More sharing options...
haku Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Maybe you are inadvertently sending your mail as html mail. Add the following header to your email: header ('Content-Type: text/plain'); And see if this is still happening. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/141537-solved-problem-with-nl2br-function/#findComment-740915 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadiadiph Posted January 20, 2009 Author Share Posted January 20, 2009 wow I feel so stupid everything was working fine except the email coming out in one line in the email received. so what i did was renamed $message by $message2 = nl2br($message); and in the message i sent i sent $message2 instead of $message why there usually a logical answer that I can't see? problem with using text/plain is on the next email i am building i will have the different problem as that one will contain an html table lol. I got it working now anyway so thanks for the input guys Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/141537-solved-problem-with-nl2br-function/#findComment-740919 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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