Line breaks in variables?

[tcorbeil]

Hello, I'm using this line to send an email...

 

mail($email2, "XXXX.com: Registration- Thank you.", $body, $headers);

 

Now the variable $body is quite long and needs to be formated..

 

so i tried this:

 

$body = "Welcome\nThis is a test\n1)blahblah\n2)blahblah";

 

Where the outcome i would expect is:

 

Welcom

This is a test

1)blahblah

2)blahblah..

 

 

obviously isn't formatting with '\n'...  any other ways to format in variables or am i chasing a ghost?

 

Thanks T.

 

[Anzeo]

i think the function nl2br will work

 

you need to use it like this

 

<?php
$body = nl2br($body);
?>

 

[HeyRay2]

i think the function nl2br will work

 

you need to use it like this

 

<?php
$body = nl2br($body);
?>

 

 

That would be for printing to the browser or sending an HTML formatted email.

 

Try this:

 

$body = "Welcome\n"
        ."This is a test\n"
        ."1)blahblah\n"
        ."2)blahblah";

[tcorbeil]

Thanks HeyRay but it is not working..

 

my actual code starts off as $body= "Hello.\n\n".$UserName." blahblahblah... and when I check my email, the format is:

 

Hello. Tim blahblahblah...

 

where I would expect:

 

Hello.

 

Tim blahblahblah...

 

..any other ideas?

T.

[tcorbeil]

actually HeyRay, the full code for my email is..

 

$headers = "From: [email protected] \r\n";

$headers.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 ";

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 ";

/*notice there aren't any \r\n after the second two header additions. This is what made this version work correctly*/

mail($email2, "xxxx.com: Registration- Thank you.", $body, $headers);

 

does the the line "$headers.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 "; " have anything to do with formatting??

 

T.

[MadTechie]

\r\n  = Return & NewLine remove the \r

[tcorbeil]

MadTechie, I've tried with the \r, without it, all variations I can think of..  it still isn't formatting..

 

Is there another way I can go about?

T.

[Anzeo]

<\ br> could work?

[rpadilla]

try this

 

$body = 
"Welcome $name

This is a test
1)blahblah
2)blahblah";

[tcorbeil]

Didn't work...

[Anzeo]

Try this:

 

$body = "Welcome\n"
        ."This is a test\n"
        ."1)blahblah\n"
        ."2)blahblah";

 

shudn't it be

 

$body = "text 1"

$body .= "text2"

 

and so on?

[kenrbnsn]

This line

<?php
$headers.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 
?>

says that you're sending HTML formated email. Since this is the case, you need to use the "<br>" tag to get a newline to appear.

 

Ken

[HeyRay2]

This line

<?php
$headers.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 
?>

says that you're sending HTML formated email. Since this is the case, you need to use the "<br>" tag to get a newline to appear.

 

Ken

 

Nice catch kenrbnsn. I didn't even notice that.