Form producing double returns in mail()

keeptrying

Hi,
I am a complete novice so please be kind. Hopefully somebody can help, this is really bugging me. 😕
I have a form written in PHP that gets populated from a MySQL database. The form displays an address that looks good in the form. However when I post the form and email the values each line comes out with double returns i.e Instead of just one return after each line I have two.

PHP:
<textarea id='CustomerDetails' name='CustomerDetails' rows='12' cols='50'>
<?php echo tep_address_format($order->delivery['format_id'], $order->delivery, 0, '', "\r"); ?>
<?php echo "\r" . $order->customer['telephone']; ?>
<?php echo "\r" . $order->customer['email_address']; ?>
</textarea>

I post these to another php file that builds up some other details and sends an email.

$emaildata = $_POST[CustomerDetails] ;

mail($recipient,$subject,$message,$headers);

The email returned has two "\r" between every line, I'd like just one.
thanks

jib0

Maybe replace your "\r" by "\n" ...

keeptrying

tried that.

also manually removed the returns in the form, but that gives me no returns.

ionathas

Try using simple html tags in your textarea:

<textarea id='CustomerDetails' name='CustomerDetails' rows='12' cols='50'>
<?php echo tep_address_format($order->delivery['format_id'], $order->delivery, 0, '', "<br />"); ?>
<?php echo "<br />" . $order->customer['telephone']; ?>
<?php echo "<br />" . $order->customer['email_address']; ?>
</textarea>

And if you have html headers for your email, you can use the nl2br() function:

$emaildata = nl2br($_POST['CustomerDetails']);

Not tried it but it should be a workaround for your problem.

keeptrying

Hi,
thanks for taking the time to respond. If I put simple HTML in the form, then the <br /> are displayed as text in the form and the address doesnt break correctly.
I think I have tried just about every combination I can think of but cannot get my email with just single line breaks.

I've tried "/n" "/n/r" which look correct in the form, both however produce the same email output and "<br />" just prints as a string in the form and in the email.

ionathas

As you said for the "<br />", I was not right. But for your "\n\r", you should always write "\r\n" instead. "\r" is for a "return carriage" and "\n" marks a new line. Doing the inverse would result in double returns in the textarea. And writing both of them will assure you to be compliant with both Windows and Linux systems.

I've just tried to send an email with your textarea.

<textarea id='CustomerDetails' name='CustomerDetails' rows='12' cols='50'>
<?php echo "Address\r\n"; ?>
<?php echo "\r\nTelephone"; ?>
<?php echo "\r\nEmail"; ?>
</textarea>

And it works perfectly, so if you already tried this alternative, see if the problem could be elsewhere.

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