form problem

irving

I am creating 'request more info' form that has three to four user input fields. I want to then send an email to a specific address with the body of the message that looks like:

Username: (username)
Email: (email address)
etc.

I don't know how to combine several variables ($username, $email, $address, etc) into $message to use with the mail function.

Anon

concatenate ...
$message = $username.$email.$address;

Anon

you could also do something like this:

$message = "$username\n";
$message = $message . "$email\n";
$message = $message . "$body";

irving

How would I add formatting to this?

I would like the output to be:

Name: $name
Email: $email
Phone: $phone

not

$name $email $phone

thanks for the help

greg252

It may not be the popular thing to say but...
use formail (a perl script). That's what it's made to do.

irving

what does the \n do?

Anon

$message = "Username: ".$username."\n"."Email: ".$email."\n"."Address: ".$address."\n";

The \n is a newline character.

irving

Is there a list of these posted for me to take a look at?

Anon

list of what?

irving

\n and \r are not working. could someone help:

$message = "Name: $username\r\n";
$message = $message . "Email: $useremail\r\n";
$message = $message . "Phone: $usertel";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

Anon

Try adding the <br> tag. This will only work if you can read HTML mail though.

$message = "Name: $username<br>";
$message = $message . "Email: $useremail<br>";
$message = $message . "Phone: $usertel";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);