Sending Information to an email - but need new lines..

[Advo]

Hi there.

Basically, I need to send some details but be able to use new lines.
Before we were using asp, which used VbCrLf but now that im writing
the pages in PHP we need another way.

a code sample is:

$details =
"------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
.. '<br />' .
"WEBSITE RESPONSE - PACK REQUEST" . '<br>' .
"------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
.. '<br>' .'<br>' .

which should then look similar to:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WEBSITE RESPONSE - PACK REQUEST
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

when the email gets sent to the address, but at the moment, its being
sent through as:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>WEBSITE
RESPONSE - SAMPLE PACK
REQUEST<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><strong>NEW


Now is this just because the email client (im testing with yahoo)
doesnt support html? or another reason.

Any ideas how i can fix this issue please.

Regards and thanks for the help

[Nick DeNardis]

It looks like you are not sending the email in "text/plain" instead of
"text/html". If you send it in "text/html" you will get your desired
results, if you want to send it in "text/plain" you will have to
replace your "<br />"'s with "\n\r" to signal a carriage return.

Advo wrote:

Hi there.

Basically, I need to send some details but be able to use new lines.
Before we were using asp, which used VbCrLf but now that im writing
the pages in PHP we need another way.

a code sample is:

$details =
"------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
. '<br />' .
"WEBSITE RESPONSE - PACK REQUEST" . '<br>' .
"------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
. '<br>' .'<br>' .

which should then look similar to:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WEBSITE RESPONSE - PACK REQUEST
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

when the email gets sent to the address, but at the moment, its being
sent through as:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>WEBSITE
RESPONSE - SAMPLE PACK
REQUEST<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><strong>NEW


Now is this just because the email client (im testing with yahoo)
doesnt support html? or another reason.

Any ideas how i can fix this issue please.

Regards and thanks for the help

[Advo]

Nick DeNardis wrote:

It looks like you are not sending the email in "text/plain" instead of
"text/html". If you send it in "text/html" you will get your desired
results, if you want to send it in "text/plain" you will have to
replace your "<br />"'s with "\n\r" to signal a carriage return.

ahh i didnt realise you had to send differently for html.. is there a
certain parameter you have to pass or?

[Nick DeNardis]

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

Check out Example 4.

Advo wrote:

Nick DeNardis wrote:

It looks like you are not sending the email in "text/plain" instead of
"text/html". If you send it in "text/html" you will get your desired
results, if you want to send it in "text/plain" you will have to
replace your "<br />"'s with "\n\r" to signal a carriage return.

ahh i didnt realise you had to send differently for html.. is there a
certain parameter you have to pass or?