Help With Formatting Text

Anon

I've have a problem that I was hoping the folks here at PHP Builder can help me with. I need to send a mail message that contains a string that is built up from a whole bunch of information that I've pulled from a database. My question is this: how do I insert carriage returns so that my info is formatted properly in the mail message. Here's an example:

I've got three fields: $Name, $email, $member_id. I want to send the person an e-mail that says:

Your name is $Name
Your e-mail address is $email
Your membership number is $member_id.

How do I build the string that gets sent out as part of the mail() command so that the line breaks are put in there. I've been searching and can't figure it out.

Anon

if you just want to have line breaks, then why not use the linebreaks:

$email_mesg = "Your name is $Name \n
Your e-mail address is $email \n
Your membership number is $member_id \n";

that does the job.

Anon

Use can also use:

\r is similar to a br in html
\t is a tab
\n is a hard return, similar to a p in html

Daarius wrote:

if you just want to have line breaks, then why not use the linebreaks:

$email_mesg = "Your name is $Name \n
Your e-mail address is $email \n
Your membership number is $member_id \n";

that does the job.

Anon

Thanks for the help. I guess I've been staring at the screen too long to figure out such a simple solution. Much obliged.

Chris

Anon

I've been having this same issue. I can get the spacing to work right if I send the email as HTML with <br>'s as line breaks. I don't want to send the email as HTML in case that causes problems somewhere along the line, so I've been trying to use \n's and \r's, but that doesn't seem to be creating the space. Any idea on what the problem is?