mail newline problem

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Please help....
I'm sending a simple email

$message = "Hello,\r";
$message.= "Someone using your email address has made an appointment with us. \r";
$message.= "If that person was you and you wish to confirm the booking, please \r";
$message.= "click on the link below. \r";
$message.= "\r";
$message.= "http://".$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?mode=confirm&ref=".$num."&act_key=".$hold_pass."\r";
$message.= "\r";
$message.= "If you have received this email without making a booking with us then \r";
$message.= "please accept our apologies for bothering you. \r";

I've tried \r\n and \r and \n in the post to get newlines but none work (the url is not showing up as highlighted either). I get the feeling I'm doing something real stupid here, please help me out.
Thanks for your time.

laserlight

hmm... maybe you set it to be one of those html emails?

might have to set the MIME type or something.

echo

The headers are as follows

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n"; 
$headers .= "From: ".$MYNAME." <".$MYEMAIL.">\n"; 
$headers .= "To: ".$email."\n"; 
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$MYNAME." <".$MYEMAIL.">\n"; 
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\n"; 
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\n"; 
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP Mailer";

Could this be the problem?

laserlight

Well, considering "Content-type: text/html", what if you use <br /> instead of the newline sequence?

yelvington

Your problem is that you are confused about what type of mail you are sending.

You are sending mail headers indicating the content type as text/html, but you are sending data more appropriate for text/plain. Since the mail client is expecting HTML, it is not likely to parse the text and transform URLs into clickable links (as it would if you sent text/plain.)

The network standard for line enders is CR-LF ("\r\n"). Line enders are not signficant in HTML, but it is wise to constrain line lengths in email transmissions.

Incidentally,

$message.= "http://".$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?mode=confirm&ref=".$num."&act_key=".$hold_pass."\r";

could be rewritten to avoid all of the concatenation calls:

$message.= "http://{$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?mode=confirm&ref=$num&act_key=$hold_pass\r\n";

I see a lot of code posted to PHPBuilder.com that makes me think people have not read the section of the manual covering how variables are expanded in double-quoted strings:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

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yelvington & laserlight

Thanks for your help.
Changed to text/plain plus fixed an error with extra "" and now all is swell:p
Thanks again