Help with converting ASP into PHP

reub77

what is "vbCrLf"? PLEASE HELP!!!

I'm converting a page of ASP into PHP and I've stumbled onto something I've never come across in ASP. Whoever coded the ASP is trying to format a message into an email message that makes sense to a reader.

$a = "A request form has been filled out and submitted" & vbCrLf
$a = $a & "by " $company & $email & vbCrLf
$a = $a & "on " & date("F d, Y") & " at " & date("H:i:s") & "." & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
$a = $a & "The following:" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
$a = $a & "Snack Mixes-" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf

This is just a sampling. What is it doing? If it is a specific function what would I use that is similar in PHP? If I know what it does I can find out at least. Is it a line break or something? The code above is partly converted to PHP as you see the form elements aren't request.form. What is the "vbCrLf" part of it?

Please Help

hand

vbCrLf is VisualBasic carriage return line feed

<?
$a  = "A request form has been filled out and submitted\n";
$a .= "by $company $email\n";
$a .= "on ".date("F d, Y")." at ".date("H:i:s")."\n\n";
$a .= "The following: \n\n";
$a .= "Snack Mixes-\n\n";
?>

reub77

Thanks very muchly. Thats what it looked like. I wonder if PHP has something like that or maybe I should just use <br>'s. Do you know if PHP has anything like that?

hand

<br> is a html tag to make carriage line feed within a web page,
\n the carriage line feed for raw text.

<?
print "This is a sample:<br>\n";
print "\n"; // This crlf you can see in source code
print "<br>"; // This html tag you can see in your browser
?>

reub77

Set objMail = CreateObject("CDONTS.Newmail")
objMail.To = "jo@jo.net"
objMail.From = "jo@jo.net"
objMail.Subject = "jo.com order"
objMail.Body = $a
objMail.Send
Set objMail = Nothing

This is a PHP email packet. Would it change much in PHP?

hand

$a  = "A request form has been filled out and submitted\n";
$a .= "by $company $email\n";
$a .= "on ".date("F d, Y")." at ".date("H:i:s")."\n\n";
$a .= "The following: \n\n";
$a .= "Snack Mixes-\n\n";

$MailFrom	= "jo@jo.net";
$MailTo 	= "jo@jo.net";
$MailSubj	= "jo.com order";
$MailBody	 = $a;  

mail($MailTo,$MailSubj,$MailBody,"From: $MailFrom");

http://www.php3.de/manual/en/function.mail.php

reub77

stupid question for you. What does the .= indicate? does it mean I will be appending to this variable later or something?

Frag

.= means to concatenate left value to right variable.

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