Spaces between .=

weaselandalf

Hi, in my script, I have several bits of data put together with .=

like this:

$subject = "A new client";
$string .= $_POST['message'];
$string .= $_POST['Name'];
$string .= $_POST['Address_line1'];
$string .= $_POST['Address_line2'];
$string .= $_POST['Post_code'];
$string .= $_POST['Telephone_number'];
$body = wordwrap($string, 70); 
$from = $_POST['email'];

But when I use the script to email all of the data somewhere, when I get the resulting email, all of the information is together with no spaces. I really need spaces between each one or even better a paragraph break. Please help!

I can't spend my life reading emailsthatlooklikethisitwouldbesoupsetting!

edit: If I put each one into its own variable and add all that to the body (I have no idea how) would that be easier to do then??

abc123

Could you not just do this:

$string.=" ".$_POST['message'];

All I've done is added a space to the start of each Post variable.

Hope this helps.

rincewind456

<?
 $subject = "A new client ";
$string .= $_POST['message']." \n<br>";
$string .= $_POST['Name']." \n<br>";
$string .= $_POST['Address_line1']." \n<br>";
$string .= $_POST['Address_line2']." \n<br>";
$string .= $_POST['Post_code']." \n<br>";
$string .= $_POST['Telephone_number']." \n<br>";
$body = wordwrap($string, 70);
$from = $_POST['email'];

Would give you a space, a newline and a html line break.

weaselandalf

Thankyou both so much for that! I've spent all morning playing about with obscure punctuation trying to get it to do that!!!!

One more thing before I mark this thread resolved, is there a way to add some default text before each thing, so that before the Name is inserted into the email I can have the message say "the client's name is"? That way I would have the perfect script!

rincewind456

Like so

$string .= "The clients name is: ".$_POST['Name']." \n<br>";

weaselandalf

Is there a way to take out the <br> bit, but still have a newline? It just puts <br> in the middle instead....?

weaselandalf

Never mind, I did it! Thanks a billion!

Houdini

You are learning about concatenation using the dot or period and when and where it needs used so you have probably learned more just building your very own php code than you would have without trying to put into practice what to do with code. The good part is when you find an error later you will remember just what could cause it.