[PHP] fixing new lines from in an email?</span></a></span> </h1> <p class="darkgray font13"> <span class="sender pipe"><a href="/search?l=php-general@lists.php.net&q=from:%22Adam+Williams%22" rel="nofollow"><span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Adam Williams</span></span></a></span> <span class="date"><a href="/search?l=php-general@lists.php.net&q=date:20090626" rel="nofollow">Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:28:57 -0700</a></span> </p> </div> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="msgBody"> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <tt>I have staff fill out a form that contains a <textarea> with their </tt><tt>problem description and emailed to me when they click submit. Staff </tt><tt>will press enter in the text area, but I'm having problems converting </tt><tt>the \r\n into a new line in the email that is sent to me, here is the code: </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> $subject = "new support request #".mysqli_insert_id($mysqli); </pre><tt>$message = "Hello, ".$_SESSION["full_name"]." has created a new support </tt><tt>request. Please log in at <a href=\"<a rel="nofollow" href="http://intra/helpdesk\"">http://intra/helpdesk\"</a>;>MDAH </tt><tt>Helpdesk</a>. The problem request is </tt><tt>\"".htmlspecialchars(nl2br(str_replace('\r','',$_POST["problem"])))."\". </tt><tt>and the best time to contact is </tt><tt>\"".htmlspecialchars($_POST["contact_time"])."\"."; </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> $headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n"; </pre><tt>$headers .= "From: </tt><tt>".$_SESSION["full_name"]."<".$_SESSION["username"]."@mdah.state.ms.us>" </tt><tt>."\r\n" ."X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion(); </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> mail('awill...@mdah.state.ms.us', $subject, $message, $headers);</pre><pre> </pre><tt>and here is an example email, notice the \n is still in the body of the </tt><tt>email, and it needs to be converted to a new line in the email: </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre><tt>Hello, Gwendolyn Jones has created a new support request. Please log in </tt><tt>at MDAH Helpdesk <<a rel="nofollow" href="http://intra/helpdesk">http://intra/helpdesk</a>>. The problem request is "1 of 2 </tt><tt>questions: I'm having trouble opening files from Jennifer, Susie, and </tt><tt>Bill because they are working with a higher version of microsoft office. </tt><tt>My version is 2003. Is there any way I could get an update on this?\n2 </tt><tt>of 2 questions: I need permission to download a plug-in for the NPS site </tt><tt>where I research NR properties.\nNeither of these questions/issues are </tt><tt>urgent. Thanks. -Gwen". and the best time to contact is "Any time, phone </tt><tt># is cell". </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"> why isn't nl2br converting the \n to <br> in the email? </pre> </div> <div class="msgButtons margintopdouble"> <ul class="overflow"> <li class="msgButtonItems"><a class="button buttonleft " accesskey="p" href="msg248327.html">Previous message</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="c" href="index.html#248328">View by thread</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="i" href="maillist.html#248328">View by date</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textalignright"><a class="button buttonright " accesskey="n" href="msg248329.html">Next message</a></li> </ul> </div> <a name="tslice"></a> <div class="tSliceList margintopdouble"> <ul class="icons monospace"> <li class="icons-email tSliceCur"><span class="subject">[PHP] fixing new lines from <textarea> in an email?</span> <span class="sender italic">Adam Williams</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg248329.html">Re: [PHP] fixing new lines from <textarea> in an ...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Daniel Brown</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg248330.html">Re: [PHP] fixing new lines from <textarea> in...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Adam Williams</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg248335.html">Re: [PHP] fixing new lines from <textarea>...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">WenDong Zhang</span></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg248340.html">Re: [PHP] fixing new lines from <textarea> in an ...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">tedd</span></li> </ul> </ul> </div> <div class="overflow msgActions margintopdouble"> <div class="msgReply" > <h2> Reply via email to </h2> <form method="POST" action="/mailto.php"> <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="[PHP] fixing new lines from <textarea> in an email?"> <input type="hidden" name="msgid" value="4A44F707.7010902@mdah.state.ms.us"> <input type="hidden" name="relpath" value="php-general@lists.php.net/msg248328.html"> <input type="submit" value=" Adam Williams "> </form> </div> </div> </div> <div class="aside" role="complementary"> <div class="logo"> <a href="/"><img src="/logo.png" width=247 height=88 alt="The Mail Archive"></a> </div> <form class="overflow" action="/search" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="l" value="php-general@lists.php.net"> <label class="hidden" for="q">Search the site</label> <input class="submittext" type="text" id="q" name="q" placeholder="Search php-general"> <input class="submitbutton" name="submit" type="image" src="/submit.png" alt="Submit"> </form> <div class="nav margintop" id="nav" role="navigation"> <ul class="icons font16"> <li class="icons-home"><a href="/">The Mail Archive home</a></li> <li class="icons-list"><a href="/php-general@lists.php.net/">php-general - all messages</a></li> <li class="icons-about"><a href="/php-general@lists.php.net/info.html">php-general - about the list</a></li> <li class="icons-expand"><a href="/search?l=php-general@lists.php.net&q=subject:%22%5C%5BPHP%5C%5D+fixing+new+lines+from+%3Ctextarea%3E+in+an+email%5C%3F%22&o=newest&f=1" title="e" id="e">Expand</a></li> <li class="icons-prev"><a href="msg248327.html" title="p">Previous message</a></li> <li class="icons-next"><a href="msg248329.html" title="n">Next message</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="listlogo margintopdouble"> <a href="#"><img src="/php-general@lists.php.net/logo.png" alt="php-general"></a> </div> <div class="margintopdouble"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer" role="contentinfo"> <ul> <li><a href="/">The Mail Archive home</a></li> <li><a href="/faq.html#newlist">Add your mailing list</a></li> <li><a href="/faq.html">FAQ</a></li> <li><a href="/faq.html#support">Support</a></li> <li><a href="/faq.html#privacy">Privacy</a></li> <li class="darkgray">4A44F707.7010902@mdah.state.ms.us</li> </ul> </div> </body> </html>