Using a carriage return

[Calahan]

Now I know that \r is a carriage return but I'm having trouble getting it to work in the following:

$subject = "An Urgent job has just been logged by " . $employee_name . ". The user has submitted the following job details: " . $_POST['job_details'] . "";

I need a carriage return just before the $POST['job_details'] so that when I use it in the following:

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 
$headers .= "From: '[e-mail]'\r\n"; 
$subject = "An Urgent job has just been logged by " . $employee_name . ". The user has submitted the following job details: " . $_POST['job_details'] . "";

mail($eng_username,'URGENT JOB LOGGED',$subject,$headers); 

the job details start on a new line.
I've tried a selection of ways to get it to work but none have succeeded.

Can someone point out what I'm missing?

Cheers.

[Weedpacket]

I don't think you'll get a newline into the Subject header ... one line per header, that's the format.

[Calahan]

Damn my early hours typing. :o Although I have named the variable "Subject", what I meant was "Body". I need the new line in the Body of the e-mail. Obviously, I only need 1 line in the Subject line. Like so:

$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 
$headers .= "From: [email][e-mail][/email]\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
$headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: High\r\n";
$subject = "URGENT JOB LOGGED";
$body = "An Urgent job has just been logged by " . $employee_name . ". The Job details are as follows: " . $_POST['job_details'] . "";

mail($eng_username,$subject,$body,$headers);

[Weedpacket]

Ah; easier if you cut-and-paste the actual code. Try the line as

$body = "An Urgent job has just been logged by " . $employee_name . ". The Job details are as follows: \r\n" . $_POST['job_details'];

[Calahan]

Thats what I thought and have been trying! It doesn't work though. Can't understand why. The body of the e-mail just gets printed out like so:

An Urgent job has just been logged by Joe Bloggs. The Job details are as follows: I can't find the Any key.

When I would like it to say:

An Urgent job has just been logged by Joe Bloggs. The Job details are as follows:

I can't find the Any key.

Any ideas?.....

Red Dwarf! I knew I recognised those words. Been sat here coding away singing the words to myself with no tune. It's just come to me.

[ucbones]

It looks to me like you've set the content as HTML, in which case I suggest you use:

"<br>\n\r"

in place of just:

"\n\r"

That way your covered whether the mail client reads HTML or not!

HTH,

ucbones

[Weedpacket]

Oh yeah; I should have read the headers that are being set a bit more carefully. Oh well, that's what I get for thinking that email is a plain text format (claiming that the given content is HTML is in error, seeing as it isn't.)

PS: It is \r\n - "carriage return/linefeed", not \n\r - I keep forgetting which is chr(10) and which is chr(13), but "linefeed" doesn't have an 'r' in it....