Help with displaying text

JSHINER · February 12, 2007

When I use

echo <<<END $field END;

It displays this example:

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Text "goes" here.

More text.

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LIKE THIS

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Text \"goes\" here. More text.

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Is there anything I can do to fix this?

trq · February 12, 2007

What is the problem?

JSHINER · February 12, 2007

I need it to diplay as it was entered in the scrolling text box. I need it to recognize the paragrahs, and not put \ before "

trq · February 12, 2007

Take a look at nl2br() and stripslashes().

JSHINER · February 12, 2007

Ok that works for displaying on the page. But when the user hits NEXT to send to me (I receive via email) ...

If I type in the form --- Testing "test"

All I get in the email from the user is --- Testing \

This is what sends the information to me:

----------------------

msgtxt = "

$field1

$field2

";

$header = "To: ".$order_email."\n";

$header .= "From: ".$order_email."\r\n";

$mailresult = @mail("",$subject,$msgtxt,$header);

----------------------

How can I make it so the $field1 will send ALL info regardless of whether or not there are " or ' in it.

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks!

redarrow · February 12, 2007

Here you go a little gift.

<?php

$email_address="what the email address is ?";

$to = $email_address;

$subject = 'what the subject is ?';

$message = '<html><body>
<table align='center'><tr><td align='center'>
The message here
</tr></td></table></body></html>;

$your_email_address="your email";

$headers = "From: $your_email_address\r\n" .
       'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
       "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
       "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n" .
       "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";

// Send
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)){

echo " your mail was sent";
exit;

}else{

echo "  no mail sent"; 
exit;
}


?>

JSHINER · February 13, 2007

Thank you - That works great EXCEPT

I have a form - lets call the "your message" field "field1"

When I put for a message in field1 (scrolling text box)

-------------------

This is a test

It isn't "working" yet.

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I use: $field1s = stripslashes(nl2br($field1));

I have it added to the $message = as '.$field1s.'

I get this as an email:

-------------------

This is a test

It isn\'t

--------------------

It adds \ in front of all ' and does not display anything in " " or after them.

Any help would be much appreciated..

JSHINER · February 13, 2007

I have searched everywhere on those two links and can not find the proper solution to strip " " - am I missing it ?

Jessica · February 13, 2007

redarrow's code has several mistakes in it - can we see the actual code you're using?

JSHINER · February 13, 2007

It is a bit lenghty, so I wont paste it all - but I have a form that asks for a few fields, one of them being "desc" which is a scrolling text box. When you click submit, it goes to a "Preview" page where it displays the form results to be checked, with another form using hidden fields, one being:

<input type="hidden" name="desc" value="'.$desc.'">

When you click submit on the preview page, it finally goes here:

$email_address = "jshiner@northie.com";

$to = $email_address;

$subject = 'NEW SIGN UP';

$descfin = stripslashes(nl2br($desc));

$message = '<html><body>
<table align=center><tr><td align=center>
'.$descfin.'
</tr></td></table></body></html>';

$your_email_address="james@dailyhomeowner.com";

$headers = "From: $your_email_address\r\n" .
       'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
       "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
       "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n" .
       "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";
       
if(mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)){

Jessica · February 13, 2007

Okay try this and let me know what you get:

$to = 'jshiner@northie.com';
$subject = 'NEW SIGN UP';

if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()){
$descfin = stripslashes(nl2br($_POST['desc']));
}else{
$descfin = nl2br($_POST['desc']);
}


$message = "<html><body>$descfin</body></html>";

$from = 'james@dailyhomeowner.com';

$headers = "From: $from\r\n" .
       'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
       "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
       "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n" .
       "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";
       
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

JSHINER · February 13, 2007

When I enter: This is a "test" - for $desc, I get: This is a \ - in the email.

When I enter: This isn't working - for $desc, I get: This isn\'t working - in the email

... So same problem. Any ideas?

Thank you for the help !

Jessica · February 13, 2007

Are you adding slashes anywhere via mysql_real_escape_string or addslashes()?

Change the if statement I wrote to just this:

$descfin = stripslashes(nl2br($_POST['desc']));

I know it's what you had before, but since we changed the quotes on the email maybe that helped... *shrug*

JSHINER · February 13, 2007

I changed the IF statement to:

if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()){
$descfin = stripslashes(nl2br($_POST['desc']));
}

Still having the same issue...

JSHINER · February 13, 2007

Also tried just:

$descfin = stripslashes(nl2br($_POST['desc']));

Same results.

Jessica · February 13, 2007

try $descfin = stripslashes(stripslashes(nl2br($_POST['desc'])));

JSHINER · February 13, 2007

Ok we got the isn\'t problem fixed. Still kills anything in " " and after.

This isn't working - displays fine.

This isn't "working" - only displays: This isn't

1 down, 1 to go.

Any suggestions?

Thanks again for all the help. I reall appreciate it.

Jessica · February 13, 2007

I dunno this is really weird.

JSHINER · February 13, 2007

When I add another field such as:

$message = "<html><body>$descfin<br>$category</body></html>";

And enter:

------------------

$desc =

This is a "test"

It isn't working

$category =

Test Cat

------------------

The email I get is:

------------------

This is a

Test Cat

------------------

So the problem is in the $desc - It does not completely kill the message - just the text inside of an after " " in $desc.

Really weird. Never seen this problem before.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated . . . I am stuck.

Jessica · February 13, 2007

You can try stripping out the quotes using str_replace

$desc str_replace('"', "'", $desc);

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