Formatting email message in PHP

[FredFogg]

I am using php to send a text email and I am populating the message and I have tried a couple examples I found on the internet, but it isn't working. It is a simple email, so no need to send in html format. Here is what I have

 

$email_msg = 'Email : ' . $Email;

$email_msg .= '\n' .'First Name : ' . $FirstName;

$email_msg .= '\n' . 'Last Name : ' . $LastName;

 

and the email I am getting

 

Email : [email protected]\nFirst Name : john\nLast Name : smith

 

what I want is

 

Email : [email protected]

First Name : john

Last Name : smith

 

What am I doing wrong or do I need to add something to the header?

[premiso]

$email_msg = 'Email : ' . $Email;
$email_msg .= "\n" .'First Name : ' . $FirstName;
$email_msg .= "\n" . 'Last Name : ' . $LastName;

 

' take the \n character literally. You need to encase it in double quotes.

[FredFogg]

I changed it to double quotes and this is what I got

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /mnt/w0712/d04/s31/b0301c6a/www.blah.com/members/omrSendEmail.php on line 88

 

 

[FredFogg]

Ok, that fixed the formatting, but caused my variables not to print:

 

$email_msg = 'Email : ' . $Email;

$email_msg .= "\n" . 'First Name : ' . $FirstName;

$email_msg .= "\n" . 'Last Name : ' . $LastName;

 

results in:

 

Email :

First Name :

Last Name :

 

 

 

[FredFogg]

Anyone?

[premiso]

Where is the firstname / email defined? The changes I mentioned should not have broke the rest of the script at all.