trying to indent in @mail()

[numerical25]

Im trying to make a application that takes a form and mails it to an email address. In the email, i want some paragraphs to be indented and have spaces. How do I go about doing that in the string

In other words, how do i get it to make more then one space between each character.

[leatherback]

\t should give a tab

[numerical25]

didnt work. the code looks like below. and remember this is going to be viewed in a outlook box. im not sure if that makes a difference or not.

	if ($_POST)
	{
		$subject = 'Request A Quote';
		$headers .= "To : <[e-mail]> \n";
		$headers .= "From: ".$_POST['email'];


	$comments .= "Full Name: ".$_POST['fullname']."\n";
	$comments .= "Address: ".$_POST['address1']."\n";
	$comments .= "City: ".$_POST['city']."\n";
	$comments .= "State: ".$_POST['state']."\n";
	$comments .= "Zip: ".$_POST['zip']."\n";
	$comments .= "Email: ".$_POST['email']."\n";
	$comments .= "Phone: ".$_POST['phone']."\n";
	$comments .= "Project Name: ".$_POST['projname']."\n \n \n";

	if ($_POST['project_type'])
	{
		$comments .= "Project Type: \n";
			foreach ($_POST['project_type'] as $project_type)
			{
				$comments .= "\t".$project_type."\n";    /* <------------- HERE IS A TAB  */
			}
	echo "<br/>";
	}
	if ($_POST['delivery'])
	{
		$comments .= "How is the furniture getting to the site? \n";
			foreach ($_POST['delivery'] as $delivery)
			{
				$comments .= "\t".$delivery."\n";     /* <------------- HERE IS A TAB  */
			}
	echo "<br/>";
	}
	$comments .= "Target Date(s): ".$_POST['targdates']."\n";
	if ($_POST['manufacturer'])
	{
		$comments .= "Manufacturers: \n";
			foreach ($_POST['manufacturer'] as $manufacturer)
			{
				$comments .= "\t".$manufacturer."\n";         /* <------------- HERE IS A TAB  */
			}
	echo "<br/>";
	}

	if ($_POST['manuother'])
	{
		$comments .= "Other: ".$_POST['manuother']."\n";
	}

if ($_POST['site_details'])
	{
		$comments .= "Site Details: \n";
			foreach ($_POST['site_details'] as $site_details)
			{
				$comments .= $site_details."\n";
			}
	echo "\n \n \n";
	}

$comments .= "Best time to be reached: ".$_POST['besttime']."\n";
$comments .= "Desired Date: ".$_POST['apptmonth']."/".$_POST['apptday']."/".$_POST['appttime']."\n";
$comments .= "How did you learn about us ? :".$_POST['wherelearn']."\n";
$comments .= "Comments:".$_POST['commentsbox']."\n";
echo $comments;	

$email = '[e-mail]';
if(!empty($email) && !empty($subject) && !empty($comments)) {

					$subject  = $subject;

					$message  .= 'From: '.$_POST['fullname']."\n".'Email: '.$_POST['email']."\n".'Subject: '.$subject."\n\n";

					$message .= "Message: \n".$comments;

					$headers  .= 'To:  <'.$email.'>'."\n";

					$headers .= 'From: '.$fullname.'<'.$_POST['email'].'>';

				} 
				else
				{

					$outcome = "There were empty fields";
				}

			if (@mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers)){

				$outcome = "Your mail has been successfully sent!";

			} else {

				$outcome = "Your mail was not successfully sent. Please check the form fields. Otherwise there may
							be errors on the page!"; 
			}

}

[leatherback]

hm.. You seem to be using 2 formatting strategies.. text and html. If you use HTML for your main formatting, and tell the client that the email is in html you need to use html formatting, e.g., <dir> I think

[numerical25]

nevermind i fixed it. the code looked like this

$comments .= "\t".$project_type."\n"; 

But i changed it to this

$comments .= " \t ".$project_type."\n"; 

If you cant notice, i put spaces in between the quotes and the \t. after that was made, it worked. not sure why. but thanks leatherhead

[numerical25]

leatherback wrote:

hm.. You seem to be using 2 formatting strategies.. text and html. If you use HTML for your main formatting, and tell the client that the email is in html you need to use html formatting, e.g., <dir> I think

will \n and \t work in html or text ??? cause I dont want different people looking at it in different email browsers and getting a different look. i want it all to look the same.

I know right now that outlook isnt reading html cause i tried using tags like br and it didnt work.

[leatherback]

outlook DOES read HTML bu you need to tell the email client what you are sending. Default probably is txt. Have a browse on the web for sending html email. You need a number of extraheaders.

\n and \t are ascii formatting