Line breaks \r\n are showing up in HTML email

[sh0wtym3]

I have a simple contact form with a textarea field, where the visitor can type a message in. However, if the user enters paragraphs or any type of line breaks, then the email that is sent shows the "\r\n" characters. I've tried using the nl2br function to no avail. Here's a sample code snippet:

 

$message = $_POST["message"];

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'From: '. $_POST["email"];

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

 

 

Am I missing something? Besides the "\r\n" characters showing, everything else works fine.

[AbraCadaver]

Either turn off magic_quotes_gpc in php.ini, or:

 

stripslashes($_POST['message']);

[sh0wtym3]

I applied that function as follows:

 

$message = stripslashes($_POST["message"]);

 

However instead of "\r\n" characters showing up everywhere, "rn" characters show up everywhere

 

[sh0wtym3]

Here's a solution, for others who may wander into this thread:

 

$message = str_replace('\r\n', '<br />', $_SESSION["message"]);

[pauliak1]

this worked for me:

 

$message = str_replace('\r\n\r\n', '\r\n', $message);

$message = str_replace('\r\n', "\n\r", $message);