[Resolved] strip_tags() in body of e-mail?

ejwf

Hello
I have a load of text as an IF/ELSE output that I echo out on the website to show feedback from a user submitted form.
this is $body, I want to incorporate $body in the text of an e-mail so I have got

$text = "$Name, <br><br>Thank you for taking the time to complete the Assessment.<br>
  Here is a record of your feedback. <br><br>
  $body<br><br>
    thanks & regards,<br>
  Sams Training<br>";

mail ("$Email", "Leadership Assessment Feedback", "$text");

this works OK but I get all the html tags that I used in $body to format the text for the website.
example of e-mail output
Liz, Thank you for taking the time to complete the Assessment. 
Here is a record of your feedback. 
-----------------------------
Question 1 - You got this correct. A ... etc.etc.

I reckon I need strip_tags() to remove the and etc.etc. but I dont know where to put it in relation to the mail() function.

I have tried

mail ("$Email", "Leadership Assessment Feedback", "strip_tags($text)");

but this doesn't work, so where do I put it?

Also how can I format this e-mail output so that is has line breaks (invisible) so that the text isnt all on one long line?

thanks in advance

bubblenut

You don't need double quotes around a variable on it's own. Try this.

mail ($Email, "Leadership Assessment Feedback", strip_tags($text));

ejwf

thanks
this has sorted out the strip_tags () issue, but does anyone know how to now force a line break that isn't going to be stripped out and isn't visible when echoed out....
thanks

bubblenut

What's your criteria for where the line breaks should go?

ejwf

Basically I would want the line breaks in the same places as I had them in the html code, to mark the end of a paragraph a couple of line breaks to force a space to seperate different points...... not set rules just to format the text so that it looks good.

bubblenut

Would [man]nl2br()[/man] fit your needs? Or preg_replace('/ /i', "\n", $string) if you're meaning to go the other way?

ejwf

thanks
I have found something on the nl2br() page in the manual that works for me - a function that is the reverse of this putting a br instead of a \n - br2nl()
thanks again for your time and advice