new lines within strings \n and making them appear in phpmail()

[ThisisForReal]

I'm working on a project where I have concatenated a string that lists all of the members of a group and want to email them to the group administrator.  An example string may look like this:

 

$string = 'Mark Ruiz | class A  | January 7, 2010\n\nJason Adams | class B  | January 9, 2010.\n\nDan Hernandez | class A  | March 4, 2010.';

 

When I put that into the message of my email:

 

$body = "Hello $admin,\n\nThis is the list of members to your group:\n$string."

 

The \n\n that separates each member in the string is still considered part of the string, so the email doesn't recognize that it should start a new line.

 

Does anybody know a good work around to this problem?  Thanks so much!

 

[TOA]

If you have your server on a microsoft machine, it must include a carriage return (\r\n) to get a new line.

 

Also, I think \r and \n must be used in double quotes, but I may be wrong  :-\

[ThisisForReal]

So if when concatenating the $string, if I build it with double quotes that will work?  I'll give it a try.

[ThisisForReal]

No luck on a variety of attempts to populate the string with various forms of \n, inside double quotes, single quotes, with \r, without it.

 

So I'll back up a moment and show the bigger picture and see if someone knows a better solution to my dilemma.

 

Objective: Send an email using php's mail() to a group leader that will show all the members of the group.  Since I'm sending a bit more information than just the name of each member, formatting the email is KEY. 

 

My Approach: The easiest way to format the letter to be legible is to insert a carriage return or new line after each member.  To do that I tried the following:

 

list_of_members = array();
foreach($member_first as $key => $value) $list_of_members[$key] = $value . ' ' . $member_last[$key] . ' | ' . $class[$key] . '  | ' . $join[$key];

$members_string = implode('\n\n',$part_line); //I'm trying to put the carriage new line here

 

Now I have one string that contains all the members with the '\n\n' between each member.  When inserting this into the body of the email, I thought the contents would create new lines in the email.

 

// Send Email
$to = "$email";
$subject = "Members of your group";
$message = "Hello $admin,\n\nThis is the list of members to your group:\n$members_string" . 
                     "\n\nRegards,\r\n Team Leader Alpha\n\n";
$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
	    'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
	    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) or die("Email was not sent");

 

The reality is that while all other carriage returns work, the email shows the member string verbatim without following the direction of the new line command (example follows:):

 

Hello John,

 

This is the list of members to your group:

Mark Ruiz | class A  | January 7, 2010\n\nJason Adams | class B  | January 9, 2010.\n\nDan Hernandez | class A  | March 4, 2010.

 

Regards,

Team Leader Alpha

 

What other method could I use to get the formatting in the email to allow for a carriage return between each member?  Thanks!

 

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

 

$members_string = implode("\n\n",$part_line);

[ThisisForReal]

$members_string = implode('\n\n',$list_of_members); //I'm trying to put the carriage new line here

 

Ignore that earlier alternate array name.  I try to change names before posting to this forum so that things are easier for you all to follow.  Missed that one.

 

 

[ThisisForReal]

I found the answer - use chr(13) and chr (10).  See code here:

$chr = chr(13) . chr(10);
$members_string = implode($chr,$list_of_members);

 

Thanks to Maven1 at php.net.