mail formatting problem

[edal11]

Hi!

I want to send a plain text email, but it doesn't seem to accept the newline character on my message body. What is wrong?

Here's what i'm doing:

$to = '[e-mail]';
$subject = 'New user.';

$message = 'Hi,\n';

$message .= 'The following person just registered: \n';
$message .= ' Name: '.$name.'\n';
$message .= ' Lastname: '.$lastname.'\n';
$message .= ' Email: '.$email.'\n';
$headers = 'From: [e-mail]';

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

Here's what I get when I receive the sent email message:

Hi,\nThe following person just registered: \n Name: myname\n Lastname: mylastname\n Email: [e-mail]\n

How do you put a newline character?
Please help,

Thanks!!!
🙂

[bad76]

Hi,
I use "\r\n" instead of just "\n" and work fine, try it...

see you

[edal11]

Thanks bad76

I found my error,
I was using \r\n but for some reason this works:

     $message .= "Nombres: ".$nombres."\r\n";

but this doesn't:

     $message .= 'Nombres: '.$nombres.'\r\n';

notice the change: the single quotes

Well, it works now!

🙂

[localgod]

“” allows you to use escape characters and ‘’ don’t, so in most cases using “” is preferable.

Nevertheless having both types of string definition symbols is sometimes convenient when writing sql statements:

$statement = ”select * from table where id='1' ”

instead of:

$statement = ”select * from table where id=\”1\””

…making you code more readable by avoiding to escape the string.