Sending an email via mail() - message is all jumbled up!

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I created a form in flash. The user can fill out each field of the form and submit the information to the $sendTo email address just fine, however, I receive the email section, $message, all jumbled up! I need to put a line break between each section so that the email I receive is legible.

I want each variable to appear on its own line.

I assume there is an extremely easy fix for this, but I have been searching for hours. Your help is very much appreciated.

[PHP]<?php
$sendTo = "me@gmail.com";
$subject = "Subject of the email";

$headers = "From: " . $_POST["contactVar"];
$headers .= "<" . $_POST["emailVar"] . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $_POST["emailVar"] . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: " . $_POST["emailVar"];
$message = $_POST["emailVar"];
$message .= $_POST["agencyVar"];
$message .= $_POST["address1Var"];
$message .= $_POST["address2Var"];
$message .= $_POST["cityVar"];
$message .= $_POST["stateVar"];
$message .= $_POST["zipcodeVar"];
$message .= $_POST["phoneVar"];
$message .= $_POST["faxVar"];
$message .= $_POST["websiteVar"];
$message .= $_POST["commentsVar"];

mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers);

?>[/PHP]

Jun 19 '07 #1

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Changed thread title to better describe the problem (did you know that threads whose titles contain phrases such as 'please help' actually get FEWER responses?).

Heya, daJunkCollector. Welcome to TSDN!

You are putting newlines in your source code... but not your message body :(

Try this instead:

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<?php

    $sendTo = "me@gmail.com";

    $subject = "Subject of the email";
 
    $headers = "From: $_POST[contactVar]";

    $headers .= "<$_POST[emailVar]>\r\n";

    $headers .= "Reply-To: $_POST[emailVar]\r\n";

    $headers .= "Return-Path: $_POST[emailVar]";
 
    $message = <<<EOT

$_POST[emailVar]

$_POST[agencyVar]

$_POST[address1Var]

$_POST[address2Var]

$_POST[cityVar]

$_POST[stateVar]

$_POST[zipcodeVar]

$_POST[phoneVar]

$_POST[faxVar]

$_POST[websiteVar]

$_POST[commentsVar]

EOT;
 
    mail($sendTo, $subject, $message, $headers); 

?>

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/languag...syntax.heredoc

Jun 19 '07 #2

digitalpbk

New Member

alternatively you can mail the entire in HTML format so you just need to add [HTML]<br/>[/HTML] after every line.

[PHP]
function sendHTMLMail($name,$email,$body,$title)
{
//recipient
$to = $email ;

// subject
$subject = "";

//HTML message TODO: Modify below
$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>$title</title>
</head>
<body>
$body
</body>
</html>
";

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= "To: $name <$email>" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: Nobody<no-reply@noreply.com>" . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

}
[/PHP]

Jun 20 '07 #3

daJunkCollector

New Member

Totally awesome. Both solutions worked great. I was in the right ballpark but just could not figure it out myself. Thank you very very much guys.

Jun 20 '07 #4

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