"!" randomly appearing in emails after submit

[fpdan]

Okay, so here's a snippet of my script:

//Console Array
$consoles_array = array("0" => "Standard Console",
 "0" => "STD Console w/ Cooler...$", 
 "275" => "Optional Console.....................................................$",
 "2350" => "Optional Console w/ Head........................................$",
 "4980" => "Elevated Helm...........................................................$",
 "7200" => "Elevated Helm Console w/ Head...............................$",
 "2600" => "Electric Head............................................................$",);
 $console_value = $_POST['Console'];
$Con = $consoles_array[$console_value];

//Call Console Output
echo "<p>Console Option: " . $consoles_array[$console_value]; 
echo "<b>".$_POST["Console"]."</b>.";

//Start Building Mail String
$msg .= "<p><strong>Console Option: </strong>$Con  ".$_POST["Console"]."</p>";

//Set up the mail
//set up the mail
$recipient = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "test";
$mailheaders .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
$mailheaders .= "From: ".$_POST["Your_Email"]." \n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: ".$_POST["No Reply"];


//send the mail
mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);

So the script is working ok (I'm newbie so I know there's probably betters ways to write it) what's puzzling me is that every so often in the actual email this script sends it randomly inserts "!". Example:

Electric Head.........!..................................................$

or

Electric Hea!d............................................................$

Anyone have any ideas?

[bpat1434]

Perhaps this is an HTML mail issue, and not a coding issue. Can you view your email in plain-text and confirm that the "!" is in fact a part of the string, and it's not an HTML entity?

Also, do note that you have two array keys of "0", so the second one will "overwrite" the first.

[fpdan]

Thanks for the reply. This really has me stumped. I looked at the emails in plain text and is still has the "i" randomly in there. What's also really odd is that this never happened when the scripts were first uploaded to the server. They have been up for about a month or two now and they have started doing this. I re-uploaded the scripts to no avail... 😕

[bpat1434]

It almost sounds like an encoding issue. But I'm not sure. Can you post an example email (headers and all) for us?

[fpdan]

I forwarded you bpat1434 to [e-mail]. I wasn't sure how to post it with headers on the forum.

[bpat1434]

Okay. You could have just cut & pasted the headers & content (with security stuff replaced with ****) and put it into code tags here.

I haven't gotten the email yet either. Try sending it to the address I PM you.

[fpdan]

bpat1434, did you get the email example?

[bpat1434]

Yeah. I don't see anything in the email you sent me, or in the code which would cause this. Sorry.

[nippaero]

Try adding the wordwrap for your message after it's built. I was getting random ! in my email and this fixed it for me.

//Start Building Mail String
$msg .= "<p><strong>Console Option: </strong>$Con  ".$_POST["Console"]."</p>"; 

$msg = wordwrap($msg, 70);