Emailing and <br>

[kpowning]

I have my email message coming from my database. But when I send the email it has all my line spacings showing up with <br /> is there any way to hide the <br /> but still keep the line spacing?

I'm using eval() to make some of my values in the email work as the email is a dynamic email for all users. I'm not sure if this is whats messing me up.

I APPRECIATE ANYONES HELP ON THIS.

[Weedpacket]

If the <br /> is showing up, then I'm going to guess that you're sending a plain text email - which doesn't need HTML markup to preserve line breaks.

Based on what information you've so far supplied, anyway.

[dotnotwhat]

Just to follow on from WeedPacket's post, if your message contains <br> or <br /> HTML tags where you actually want to use newline characters (to use in plain text emails), just do a simple string replace:-

$msg = "My email message!<br>This contains HTML line breaks<br>that need converting to ASCII newline charcters.<br>";
$msg = str_replace("<br>","\n",$msg);
$msg = str_replace("<br />","\n",$msg);

[AndreF]

why not using nl2br? as AltBody with phpmailer?
Just use your message without <br> and each new line in a real new line instead of having <br> then set that message as Body then nl2br it as AltBody.