Plain text email spacing issues??

darthmahon

Hey,

Ok using the following to send a plain text email:


// create final message, $text refers to the textarea they typed the original message in

$message2 = "Dear $firstname,\n\n$text\n\nRegards,\nThe Team\n\n";

// send email

$headers  = "X-Priority: 3\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From: $From\r\n";

$ok = @mail($recipient, $subject, $message2, $headers);

if ($ok) {

echo "The email has been successfully sent to $recipient.<br>";

} else {

echo "The email could not be sent to $recipient. Sorry!<br>";

}

And this is the textbox I am using to type in the message I want to send:

<textarea name="text" cols="90" rows="20" id="text"></textarea>

So for example if I write:

Hello,

How are you?

I get:

Hello,


How are you?

It seems to add a line to the line breaks???

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Chris

freebie

could have something to do with the windows -> unix -> windows line conversions. this can happen in dreamweaver sometimes too. The solution is to look for anywhere there's 2 line breaks and replace it with one (ie, using regular expressions)

search for \n\n or \r\n\r\n (I would try searching for each of these one after the other, and for each, replace with \n

darthmahon

hmmm,

well seeing as this is a textbox and whatever I type in is emailed, I don't see how I can check for double spacing and replace it with one line, I shouldn't have to do that really.

This is the code that generates the message the user sees:

$message2 = "Dear $firstname,\n\n$text\n\nRegards,\nThe Team\n\n";

$firstname is taken from the users login details and $text is taken from the textbox.

It works fine in HTML where I am using nl2br($text).

Cheers,
Chris

maqmus


$text = str_replace("\n\n","\n",$text);
$message2="Dear_$firstname,\n\n$text\n\nRegards,\nThe_Team\n\n";