form textarea

Anon

Hi,

Sorry if this is obvious, but I only started looking at php a couple of days ago.

I have created a form where the user can type a subject and a message.

What I want it to do is pick up a list of emails from a mySQL database and mail a copy of the message to each person. I've done that. Very straightforward.

However The formatting of the message gets lost, i.e. new lines disappear.

How can I solve this,

Thanks in advance,

Richard

Anon

well i think you should learn String Function. have a look this fucntion:

function StringRepl($srcline) {
$srcline = str_replace(chr(13).chr
(10)," ",$srcline);
$srcline = str_replace(chr(13)," ",$srcline);
$srcline = str_replace(chr(10)," ",$srcline);
return $srcline;
}

use that function to display your text. any text with new line will display as your wish.

Anon

Use the built-in function nl2br() - "new line to ".
So if the variable is stored in $email_text, you would stick in:
$formatted_email_text=nl2br($email_text);
The variable $formatted_email_text now contains your, well, formatted email text! (as far as new lines are concerned)

yelvington

Your problem is not a PHP problem. It is a characteristic of HTML that line enders are not meaningful. There are two ways of dealing with this; one is entirely within HTML, the other is a PHP function.

If you enclose text within <PRE> and </PRE> tags, HTML mandates that the text be treated as preformatted. This will cure your problem.

If you don't like the way it looks -- and you may not, as most browsers render PRE in a typewriter font -- you can run the retrieved text through the PHP nl2br() function, which finds newlines and inserts BR tags.

Anon

I think I've kind of misinterpreted here.
I'm not looking at a way to display the message via html, but someway of using the mail function and still getting the newlines.

Thanks for everyones suggestions anyway,

Richard

Anon

Here is what worked for me:
Input to this script is $FromForm

<?
$Step1 = nl2br($FromForm);
$Step2 = str_replace(" ","\n",$Step1);
$Final = stripslashes ($Step2);
?>

Step1: Put in the place of the line-feeds of the $FromForm string.

Step2: Replace the with "\n"

Final: Get the "escapes" ("\") out of your message (will otherwise appear in front of all ' and ".

I am a beginner and I can only say that it worked for me. If it is crappy: kill me! :o)

Rouven