[SOLVED] linebreak problem with email notification

[Marc7777]

_{I have a 'tell a friend' php script in a website and the owner gets an email when a user tells a friend about the website.}

 

_{This is the code that sends the email to the owner of the website as text:}

 

        _{if($receiveNotifications) {}

            _{$subject = 'Tell a friend script notification';}

            _{$message = 'This person: ' . $_POST['name'] . ' (' . $_POST['email'] .')' . "\r\n" .}

            _{$message = ' told a friend about our website. E-mailaddrres(es) of his or her friend(s):  ' . implode(', ', $sent) . "\r\n" .}

            _{$message = "Personal message: " .  $_POST['message'];}

            _{$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";}

            _{$headers .= 'From: ' . $webmasterEmail . "\r\n" .}

                            _{'X-Mailer: Company Name';}

            _{@mail($webmasterEmail, $subject, $message, $headers);}

        _}

 

_{This works fine and the email looks as follows:}

 

_{This person:: Xxxxc ([email protected]) told a friend about our website. E-mailaddrres(es) of his or her friend(s):  [email protected] Personal message: Hello Test}

 

_{What I can not get done is to insert linebreaks so that the email looks as follows:}

 

_{'This person: Xxxxc ([email protected]) told a friend about our website.}

_{E-mailaddrres(es) of his or her friend(s):  [email protected]}

 

_{Personal message: Hello Test}

 

_{I thought adding "\r\n" . would create the needed linebreaks nor do I get linebreaks if I use "\n\n".}

 

_{Please help!}

_Thanks.

_Marc

[chrisuk]

here is some code from one of my projects which works as expected:

 

<?php
$messageproper =

"A new user account has been created for you \n" .
"Details are as Follows:\n" .
"--------------------------\n\n" .
"You Username: $username\n\n" .
"Your Password: $password\n\n" .
"For security purposes you should log in and change your password to something more memorable as soon as possible\n\n" .
"This email has been automatically generated, please do not reply. If you have any issues, please contact your system administrator" .
"\n\n\n" ;
?>

 

Notice how we have used  the . operator differently - perhaps that is where the problem lies but I couldn't say for sure as this is the only way I have ever done it. You could perhaps adopt a similar format...hope that's of any use.

[Marc7777]

Thanks fr your help!

But it didn't solve the problem.

 

The solution was in the header which was set to html

$headers = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8

 

instead of

$headers = 'Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8'

 

[chrisuk]

Didn't spot that 

 

never mind at least it's sorted