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Anon

Hi,

I would like to send an e-mail with $body as the body of the mail.

$body = "Text comes here... and ad a second line..." . $date(...)

Now I would like to jump to the next line, you know, just a hard return. How do I do this?

The mail should look like this:

Textcomes here...
and ad a second line

amcgrath

press return where you want it to appear....

Anon

Look, when I send a mail using PHP and I ad a <br>-tag in my $message var I just don't get what I need.

I did send a mail to my own, something like this:

$message = "Hello world<br>This is the second line."

When I open the mail he doesn't recognise the <br>-tag. So how do I send a rich text mail using PHP3?

Thanx!

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Magic happens when you use ASCII.

Forget the "<BR>" tag, use a linebreak: "\n"

Anon

Thanx, right what I needed!

Anon

Hi again!

I would like to use a TAB in my variable, how do I do this?

$message = "before TAB after TAB"

amcgrath

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Drat, 32 seconds too late :-)

amcgrath

heh 😉 ... but, I've sent mail thousnads of times, and if i had a hard return, it emailed with it... wouldn't my first response work for this guy?

cordex

Yeah, it would. Maybe he just prefers to have his string on one line.

Anon

You can try to use printf function, and to specify line breaks or tabs you can do

printf("Line of text %c", 10);
printf("%c Line of text following the tab %c", 09, 10);
printf("\t Line of text following tab with new line character \n");

printf gives you more control over format compared to echo or print. Another good idea is to go to google.com and get yourself and ASCII table.

P.S. C rocks over any language!!!

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"printf gives you more control over format compared to echo or print"

Not if you're just looking for returns and tabs. If you are, then printf is pure overkill.

Anon

I don't know if it is an overkill.

I come from the C background, so using printf(), fprintf(), sprintf()... is kind of natural to me...

But, yes, echo and print with \n \t will get the job done just fine..