[SOLVED] <br> in non html email from php?

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Hey guys.

 

I have a script I made that emails a message to peoples phones via text.  Its very simple and just emails using normal php mail command.  Everything is awesome except for one detail.  I cannot hit enter in the message or else in the text you actually see "<br>".  Is this a flaw in my code somehow?  Obviously it is using html by adding the <br> and the phone cannot display an html message. How can I get it to insert a break when enter is hit without showing as <br> in the code?

 

Or is there simply no way?

 

Thanks

 

I would post my code but its just a messagebox and submit.  Let me know if you need it though.

[eRott]

Couldn't you use \n for the line break?

 

mail($to, $subject, "Hello,\n\nThis.\n\nGoodbye.", $headers)

 

Result:

Hello,

This.

Goodbye.

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I can try that but I do not know how I could do that.  Nowhere in the code did I set it to use <br> it is doing it by itself.

 

Is there a way in the code to tell it to use /n instead of <br>?

[jxrd]

Just replace all your <br>'s with \n. And it's \n not /n.

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Maybe I am not explaining this right.  The user is typing a message into a messagebox form.  THEY are hitting enter for a new line and in the message that is sent it is inserting <br> all by itself.  I cannot edit the code as I did not code that in.

[iarp]

Add this to your $headers

				$header = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
			$header .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";

[Andy-H]

Are you using nl2br() or str_replace() on the user input?

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Andy> Yes I am using nl2br on the message.

 

Like this:

 

$MESSAGE_BODY = nl2br($_POST["message"]);

 

 

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And that was it.  Thank you Andy for spotlighting the obvious.