[RESOLVED] PHP Mail form, new lines in textarea?

[VisionX]

So, this is probably something really stupid that I cant find... But... I have a text box...

<textarea name="additionalinfo" id="additionalinfo" cols="55" rows="6"></textarea>

But when the mail shows up, any hard returns just show up on a single line... Basically, its not creating a <p>

example, if you type in...

Hello,

My name is Joshua

It will output to the email address in my form...

Hello,My name is Joshua

How do I set myself up so that it will turn my hard returns into <p> for the html?

Here is what I have currently...

<?php
//$name = $_POST["email"];
$name = $_POST["name"];
$policynumber = $_POST["policynumber"];
$phonenumber = $_POST["phonenumber"];
$issue = $_POST["issue"];
$purchased = $_POST ["purchased"];
$infocheck  = $_POST ["infocheck"];
$additionalinfo = $_POST ["additionalinfo"];

//checkbox value readout
$mailcc = $_POST['sendmetoo'];

$email_to = "xxx@xxx"; // Who the email is to
$email_from = $_POST['emailfrom']; // Who the email is from
$email_subject = $policynumber.' - '.$issue; // The Subject of the email

//here you can define whatever you want to...
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "To: <".$email_to.">\r\n";
$headers .= "From: ".$email_from."\r\n";

//we control if sendmetoo is checked...
if($mailcc == 'sendtome'){
       $headers .= "Cc: ".$email_from."\r\n";
}
//$headers .= "Bcc: [e-mail]\r\n";

$email_message = "Sales Level 2,<p>";
$email_message .= "\n\n<b>Policy Number:</b> " .$policynumber. "<br>";
$email_message .= "\n<b>Clients Name:</b> " .$name. "<br>";
$email_message .= "\n<b>Phone Number:</b> " .$phonenumber. "<br>";
$email_message .= "\n<b>Reason(s):</b> " .$issue. "<br>";
$email_message .= "\n<b>Purchased Already:</b> " .$purchased. "<br>";
$email_message .= "\n<b>All info correct?:</b> " .$infocheck. "<p>";
$email_message .= "\n\n<b>Additional Information:</b> " .$additionalinfo. "<br>";

$from_domain = strtolower(strrchr($email_from, '@'));if($from_domain!='@xxx.com'  && $from_domain!='@xxx.com'){    echo "<center><font size=+2>Your email has <u><b>NOT</b></u> been sent</font><p>That email address is not allowed.<br>Click <a href=\"#\" onclick=\"history.back();\">here</a> to go back</center>";    exit();}

$ok = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);

if($ok) {
echo "<font face=verdana size=2><center>Your message has been sent<br>
to Sales Level 2<br>
Click <a href=saleslevel2mailer.php>here</a> to go back</center>";

} else {
die("Sorry but the email could not be sent. Please go back and try again!");
}
?>

Thanks in advance guys!
🙂

[dagon]

nl2br()

[VisionX]

dagon;10972084 wrote:

nl2br()

See, I saw that... But then I read this on php.net

php at keithtyler dot com 05-Nov-2004 06:58
Take extreme care with nl2br(). It is a simple replacement function -- apparently equivalent to preg_replace("\n","<br >\n").

It should not be used on input from HTML textareas, unless all HTML tags are stripped from the input first. nl2br() does not do anything special to newlines that occur within HTML elements (such as the <a> anchor tag).

Some browsers will submit textarea data with newlines inserted at the points where the user's input wrapped to the next line. This can cause anchor links to break and other erratic appearance of HTML:

<a <br >href=http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php>PHP nl2br()</a>

or worse:

<a href="http://www.site.com/user/page with <br />spaces.html">URL with spaces</a>

A lot of people use nl2br() to allow their users to insert explicit line and paragraph breaks via newlines, and their applications will exhibit this problem when used with such browsers.

[VisionX]

I should mention, that yes, it is working with

$additionalinfo=nl2br($additionalinfo);

Im just looking for a more 'proper' way to do it if there is one?

[dagon]

considering what you are doing, i consider it perfectly proper.