email formatting

I am trying to format an email message and I can't seem to get new lines started. The code works this way:

$namex = $POST['name'];
$facilityx = $POST['facility'];
$msg = "$namex";

It also works this way:

$namex = $POST['name'];
$facilityx = $POST['facility'];
$msg = "$facilityx";

But when I try to introduce new lines, etc like this:

$namex = $POST['name'];
$facilityx = $POST['facility'];
$msg = "$namex\n$facilityx";

I get nothing. It is driving me absolutely nuts!!! Any ideas?

You may want to try separating the variables in the $msg as follows:

$msg = $namex . "\n" . $facilityx;

Originally posted by doobster
You may want to try separating the variables in the $msg as follows:

$msg = $namex . "\n" . $facilityx;

I have tried all of the following and have gotten errors:

$msg = $namex . "\n" . $facilityx; ==> error

$msg = "$namex . "\n" . $facilityx"; ==> error

$msg = "$namex"\n"$facilityx"; ==> error

$msg = "$namex\n$facilityx"; ==> error

This is just driving me crazy!!!

I was having this problem today.

I broke down and used:

chr(13) . chr(10)

Which equates to carriage return and line feed, also known as: \n (in a hex editor, the \n was only dumping out chr(10)).

Give that a whirl. I'd bet it would work.