How to stylize form output in emails

[Drding]

Hello all!

 

First, I'm a complete noob when it comes to php coding so bare with me on this. I know this might seem like a super simple thing to do, but as I said I'm a beginner at best.

 

What I have is a very simple contact form with three fields: name, email, and comments. The way I have it set up is that when someone fills out the form and hits the submit button, it sends me an email via Gmail with the values of the form. Pretty basic stuff.

 

The thing is, when I get the values in the email, it's all on one line and rather unflattering looking. It works for just me, I don't care really. But I'd like to turn around and use this form/php code I have for a client. The form for them is going to have a lot more input fields and I can only imagine the string of text that it's going to create.

 

What I would like to do is format the values that I or they receive via email so that it's a bit more presentable.

I have no idea how to do this.

 

Here's my php code connected to my form:

 

<?php

include_once("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");

$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$comments = $_POST['comments']; 

$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";

$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Port = 465;

$mail->Username = "[email protected]";
$mail->Password = "xxxxxx";

$mail->AddAddress("[email protected]");
$mail->From = "[email protected]";
$mail->FromName = $_POST['name'];
$mail->Subject = "User Comment";
$mail->IsHTML(true);
$mail->Body = "Name: $name\n Email: $email\n Comments: $comments";


if($mail->Send()) {
   echo "Message sent! Thanks for your comments!";
} 
?>

 

so right now with that I get an email for example that looks like this:

 

Name: Bob Email: [email protected] Comments: I like soda!

 

where I would rather have something like:

 

Name: Bob

Email: [email protected]

Comments: I like soda!

 

Any advice would very much appreciated!

[JD*]

Change your \n to <br  /> and you should be in business

[Drding]

 

It worked! Wow that was almost too easy to be true lol. Thanks JD, you're a life saver!