[Resolved] sending mail: too many lines in textarea...

[john2k]

Hi everyone. I'm working on a script for a feedback form on my site. Now I'm just working out the kinks.

Part of my form collects the main body of the email message in a textarea form element and assigns the entered text to the variable $message.

When I send the formatted email via the mail() function, the output of $message isn't formatted exactly as submitted.

If no blank lines are entered between paragraphs, the email comes in with a single blank line between each paragraph.

If blank lines are entered into the textarea element of the form, either between paragraphs or whatever, for each blank link entered there are three blank lines in the email that I get.

For example, the following:

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

Is sent by the mail function as:

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

 text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 

 text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 

And the following:

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

 text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 

 text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 

Is sent by the mail function as:

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

 text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 



 text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 

And if there are two lines entered between paragraphs (or whatever), like this:

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

 text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 


 text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 

The mail function sends this:

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

 text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text






 text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 

Is there any way to correct this?

Thanks in advance.

• John

[jayant]

what i can understand from this is newline character is getting converted to two newline characters. or maybe it has something to do with '\r\n' format of windows.
i will recommend that you use str_replace and convert '\r\n' to '\n' . it should solve the problem most probably.

[john2k]

use str_replace and convert '\r\n' to '\n'

Thanks a lot for your help. That fixed the problem.