what's wrong in this code?

[autocolismo]

I have a form in a flash movie when it calls the php to send the mail in the message i cant put the paragraphs why is that????

If i replace "\r\n" by some word it works fine but not in the message.

$nome = $HTTP_POST_VARS['nome'];
$email = $HTTP_POST_VARS['email'];
$assunto = "MAIL VIA WEBSITE - ".$HTTP_POST_VARS['assunto'];
#### tried to use str_replace didn't work
$msg = ereg_replace ("\r\n", "<br>", $msg);

#### my question is here the \r\n goes ok to mail
$mensagem = "Nome: ".$HTTP_POST_VARS['nome']."\r\n email: ".$HTTP_POST_VARS['email']."\r\n Telefone: ".$HTTP_POST_VARS['telefone']."\r\n MENSAGEM: \r\n". $msg;

$destinatario = "[e-mail]"

if (mail($destinatario, $assunto, $mensagem, "From: $nome <$email>\r\n" . "Reply-To: $nome <$email> \r\n"  )) {
echo "mail sent";
} else {
echo "kill yourself";

[eoghain]

Your problem is here:

$msg = ereg_replace ("\r\n", "<br>", $msg);

When trying to work with escape characters you'll need to add more escapes. I know it sounds wierd, but the above code isn't searching inside your $msg string for the \r\n that you are sending it, instead it's searching for the actual carrige return linefeed characters, and it won't be able to find them. You'll proabably have to do this:

$msg = ereg_replace ("\\r\\n", "<br>", $msg);

Escaping your escape characters will send the \r\n correctly to the ereg_replace function and hopefully work to do the replace. However depending on how the ereg_replace function was coded you may need to add more escapes to make sure that by the time the code gets to the actual replacement engine it's getting \r\n. In some things I've done I've ended up with things like \\r\\n.

[autocolismo]

I am sorry but i really dont see any diference between those codes

And my code finds "\r\n", i can replace it with anything i want, except line breaks, is there any other way to define line brake?

[xblue]

probably the forum php formatting stripped the additional backslashes from eoghain's answer.

what I don't understand: you seem to be sending plain text emails, at least you separate the "Nome: ...", "email: ..." etc. lines with \r\n as well. so why can't you use \r\n within $msg?

[autocolismo]

OK thanks for your replies.

Just to inform that i found the problem.

The text i send with flash comes only with "\r" and i couldnt see line breaks with it
so

 $msg = ereg_replace ("\r\n", "<br>", $msg); 
#i changed to this
$msg = ereg_replace("\r", "\r\n", $msg); 

now escuse me i am going to drink a beer 🙂