using formatting within php$ passed to site

[dragonrider]

Hope someone can help me out here, please? 🙂

I've written my own code to allow one of my sites to sell young plants, collate the order and work out all the costs, postage etc.

However, whilst the formatting worked perfectly last year, this year the formatting is all to pot for the resulting message displayed to the customer in the pay portal (NoChex).

What I am trying to do, is pass a newline value within a php $value and nothing has worked so far.

I have tried \r, \n, %0A and %0D seperately and in unision, all to no avail. Sometimes the code appears, others, it's stripped out.

My code is thus:-

$nl = '+\r\n'; \\try all sorts!!
$m = 'Your+Order:'.$nl.$D_beg.'+Dobies+Begonias'.$nl.$D_liz.'+Dobies+Busy+Lizzies'.$nl.$D_pet.'+Dobies+Petunias'.$nl;
$m .= $P_beg.'+Dobies+Easiplants+Begonias'.$nl.$P_liz .'+Dobies+Easiplants+Busy+Lizzies'.$nl.$P_pet.'+Dobies+Easiplants+Petunias'.$nl;
$direct = "no" ;
$d = $_POST['direct'];
if ($d) $direct = "yes" ;
$m .= $nl.'Direct+delivery+from+Dobies:+'. $direct .$nl ;


$m .= $nl.'Thank+you+for+your+order.'.$nl.'This+will+be+confirmed+via+Email+within+24+hours.'.$nl.'IGA.';
$content = $m ;

$payurl = "https://www.nochex.com/nochex.dll/checkout?email=###########&amount=$cost&description=$m&returnurl=http://www.#########.org.uk/thank3.htm";

header( "Location: $payurl" );

exit;

The result is as below:=

Your Order: \r\n2 Dobies Begonias \r\n0 Dobies Busy Lizzies \r\n0 Dobies Petunias \r\n0 Dobies Easiplants Begonias \r\n0 Dobies Easiplants Busy Lizzies \r\n0 Dobies Easiplants Petunias \r\n \r\nDirect delivery from Dobies: no \r\n \r\nThank you for your order. \r\nThis will be confirmed via Email within 24 hours. \r\nThe IGA.

Any ideas please? I'm just going round in circles now and my head hurts from the brick wall!

[halojoy]

I think
you should use something like
[man]urlencode[/man] on your string, before you put it in link

Description
$string = urlencode ( $str );

This function is convenient when encoding a string to be used in a query part of a URL, as a convenient way to pass variables to the next page.

[laserlight]

You might want to read the PHP manual on strings. You will then find that '\n' and "\n" are very different, even though 'n' and "n" are the same.

However, in this case you really want to use [man]rawurlencode/man or [man]urlencode/man on the values since it is passed in the URI of a location header. An example would be:

$value = "hello\nworld";
header('Location: http://www.example.com/?value=' . urlencode($value));
exit;