[RESOLVED] using if statement and echo in php mail

[saco721]

Hi,

I am having difficulty in adding information to a php mailer script. I have :

echo 'Name : ';
	echo $_SESSION['clientname'];
	echo "<br>";

if ($_SESSION['otherchoice'] == "other"){

echo "other";	echo "<br>";
echo 'Other information is : ';
echo $_SESSION['textchoice'];
echo "<br>";}
else {

echo $_SESSION['otherchoice'];
echo "<br>";}

and would like to use this as the message part of of php mail, i.e :

 $message = "above code"; 
  mail("[e-mail]", "$subject",
  $message, "From:" . $email);

Is this possible, if not how would I go about it?

Thank you very much for your time!

[titan21]

Rather than echoing the message directly - try creating a string from your output and using that as the $message argument in mail().

$message = 'Name : '; 
$message .= $_SESSION['clientname']; 
$message .= "<br>"; 

if ($_SESSION['otherchoice'] == "other"){ 

$message .= "other";    echo "<br>"; 
$message .= 'Other information is : '; 
$message .= $_SESSION['textchoice']; 
$message .= "<br>";} 
    else { 

$message .= $_SESSION['otherchoice']; 
$message .= "<br>";} 

[saco721]

Hi Titan21,

works perfectly, only thing is I get the following in the email :

Name : Fred<br>Other : Fruits<br>

rather than :

Name : Fred
Other : Fruits

how do I get the line break rather than <br>

Thank you very much for your time!

Many thanks,

Saco.

[titan21]

mail() can take additional headers in a fourth argument so add "Content-type: text/html;" to this and see what happens.

mail($email, $subject, $message, "Content-type: text/html;");

Also <br> should be changed to <br/> - most mail clients/browsers are forgiving but its good to get it right! 🙂

[saco721]

Hey Titan21,

problem sorted,

Thanks for your time!,

best wishes,

Saco.

[bradgrafelman]

titan21;10990890 wrote:

Also <br> should be changed to <br/> - most mail clients/browsers are forgiving but its good to get it right! 🙂

Only if you declare the appropriate DOCTYPE within the HTML document. For example, in a HTML 4.01 Traditional document, '<br/>' would be invalid syntax.

[saco721]

thanks for your advise bradgrafelman, <br> seems to work just fine.