mail function forces wrap

[silvano]

When sending a mail, the mailer wraps the mail contents. In HTML5 there is a wrap="soft/hard" parameter which seems to do nothing. 

 

I collect a text via form/textarea, where the user may enter line breaks. If I print it, those are kept:

 

echo $myText;

 

produces:

 

This is line 1

This is line 2

 

However if I send it via mail:

 

 

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";

$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

 

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

 

then my text arrives like this:

 

This is line 1 This is line 2

 

What do I do wrong?

 

 

[mac_gyver]

the PHPFreaks.com Questions, Comments, & Suggestions forum section, where you posted this -

This is NOT a help forum! Do not post topics asking for help that are not related to the website.

 

 

php help questions belong in the php help forum section. moving thread....

[kicken]

HTML does not render line breaks. You need to replace (or add to) them some <br> tags which will then cause a new line to be rendered. PHP has a nice function for this called nl2br

[jazzman1]

 

 

In HTML5 there is a wrap="soft/hard" parameter which seems to do nothing

 

Ah...no! If you want to create own html email template, you should code it like it's 1995-1996

Coding an html email is basically like you're coding simple web page using old fashioned style.