[RESOLVED] PHP line breaks not recognized

[Thorby68]

I hope someone can help me with a little bit of understanding about PHP line breaks in PHP and MIME mail.

If I send my mail body via PHP mail i.e.

body = "this is the first part of the text \n\n";
body. = "this is the 2nd part of the text \n\n";

The text email received is punchuated with the line breaks, i.e the received email looks like

this is the first part of the text

this is the 2nd part of the text

But when I send the same PHP data, via MIME in a PHP script, the receipt email looks like this:

this is the first part of the text this is the 2nd part of the text

i.e. the \n line breaks have been removed.

Has anyone got any idea's of how to send the line breaks without resorting to recompiling the whole thing for HTML?

Many thanks

[NogDog]

If it's being output as HTML, then line breaks are treated as word spaces (unless in something like a <pre> element). If that's the case, take a look at the [man]nl2br/man function.

[Thorby68]

NogDog, you are a legend.

By placing the nl2br before each string that contains a line break, the received email is formatted 100&#37; perferct, i.e.

$email_message.="VAT Registration Number is: ";
$email_message.= $POST["CoVAT"];
$email_message.=nl2br("\n\n");
$email_message.="Company Unique Tax Reference is: ";
$email_message.= $POST["CoTax"];
$email_message.=nl2br("\n\n");

ensures gives the output

VAT Registration Number is: CoVAT value

Company Unique Tax Reference is: CoTax value

instead of the following output that is generated without nl2br

VAT Registration Number is: CoVAT value Company Unique Tax Reference is: CoTax value

Many thanks for your wisdom.

[dagon]

you could just replace

$email_message.=nl2br("\n\n");

with

$email_message.='<br><br>';

[Thorby68]

many thanks dagon, i will keep this in mind