HTML Email and length of variable content

jdc44

Here is one that is really stumping me.

I've created a form with a textarea box to enter text in. <textarea name="content" cols="50" rows="30" wrap="soft"> This text ($content) will be added to the message in an html email. The idea being, I can send emails to a group of users with this form and the text will be my email message.

The html email is set up as a table. I have an image as the banner in the top <tr><td>...

Then I have a <tr><td> with the company name...

Then I have a <tr><td> $content </td></tr>

$content is what I or the user types into the textarea box in the form.

Everything works, but with one hitch. If I type in more than 950 characters, including white spaces, I only get about 950 characters in my email when I view it.

When I receive my email, I see...

My image banner shows and is a link to the website the email comes from. The company name shows and then the text I entered into the textarea. It is this text that is truncated to about 950 characters max. I've never seen this.

My code is doing nothing to the $content. I print $content to the screen before I send the email and it is all there. Next, I send the email and $content is shortened.

Anyone know what might be causing this?

I've regularly sent out emails much much longer in length than this one. But, I've never put text into a variable like this, so I don't know if that is something to consider.

Thanks,
jdc

drew010

have you tried running [man]wordwrap[/man] around the content? if one line gets too long you may notice problems. also have you tried echo'ing out the emails contents that you use as the message body to make sure that you have the full contents before the mail is being sent? that can help determine if the problem happens from the php side or the mail transfer side.

jdc44

It is not word wrap and I have printed my content to the screen before the mail gets sent.

I just went into my script and removed $content and copy and pasted about 2,000 characters into the <td> cell.

I emailed the html email to myself and all the content was all there.

I removed the hard coded content and replaced it with $content and mailed the email again. And again the content was truncated.

How strange is that?

jdc44

In the body of my html email, I did a strlen($content) and it accurately printed out 5,000 characters, yet only 900 charcters, or so display in the body.

Hard coding prints and mails all content. Using a variable for my content only prints about 900.

What could be causing this? Hmmm.

jdc44

I changed a line of my code that looks in $content for \r\n.
I was using:
$content = preg_replace('/\r\n/', "<BR>", $content);

I changed this to
$content = nl2br($content);

I now can read about 3000 characters in my email. I should get more than that if they are enteres. Rhetorical... why would that make a difference? Hmmm.

The only other statement I preform on $content is stripslashes to escape single quotes and apostorphes.

Weedpacket

Perhaps you could try making the last step in preparing the email body a wordwrap (using "\r\n"). Every line in an email body SHOULD be less than 78 characters, and MUST be less than 998. (Reference: RFC 2822; §2.3.)