Line Break Madness!

[jmitchell]

I've been trying to work out this very simple thing for hours now and I wonder if you can help.

My form submits the value of textarea, then takes the value and emails it in a plaintext email. Problem is the no matter what I do, I cannot get the line breaks in the email.

 
$msg_text = $_GET['msg_text'];
$email = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "My Subject";
$headers = 'From: [e-mail]' . "\r\n" .
   'Reply-To: [e-mail]' . "\r\n" .
   'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
mail($email,$subject,$msg_text,$headers);
echo "done";
 

The form looks like this:

<form action="FILE_NAME" method="GET">
<textarea name="msg_txt" cols="50" rows="50"></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="go">
</form>

Something like nl2br is not an option because I don't want html output and I simply can't figure out why the line breaks are being taken out of this string.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[eboyjr14]

I think I remember that you should use the function stripslashes in the message body var...

[eboyjr14]

Instead of using $_GET vars, you should use $_POST since the user cannot see what they sent and they can send a really long message if they want. GET vars has a limited amount of info.

[jmitchell]

Thanks for the replies. Neither of those does the trick, though.

[ben808]

using $_GET url encodes the form field contents I guess - so a newline becomes: %0D%0A

so if you need to use $_GET then use:

$message = urldecode($_GET["msg_text"]);

[jmitchell]

I'm embarassed to say I didn't mention that there was javascript involved. Once I used javascript escape to encode the url, the get worked fine. Thanks for putting up with me.