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user1351271
user1351271

Reputation: 11

Create a line break in my PHP email form

\I hope someone can help. I am a bit of a dunce with php but I managed to create a booking form for my bed and breakfast using a mail.php page called up from the html form.

The body goes like this:

$subject = "Booking Request"; 
$fields = array(); 

$fields{"title"} = "Title";
$fields{"name"} = "Name";
$fields{"email"} = "email";
$fields{"telephone"} = "telephone";
$fields{"mobile"} = "mobile";
$fields{"arrival_day"} = "arrival day";
$fields{"departure_day"} = "departure day";
$fields{"adults"} = "#  of adults";
$fields{"children"} = "# of children";
$fields{"questions"} = "any questions?";

It works but everything comes out on one line like this

Title: Ms Name: Joe Blogs email: [email protected] telephone: 02 12345697 mobile: 01234958arrival day: 10/06/12 departure day: 20/06/12 # of adults: 8 # of children: 4 any questions?

but I want it to look like this:

Title: Ms
Name: Joe Blogs
email: [email protected]
etc.

I've tried \n, \r and <br/> in all sorts of places but I'm just stabbing in the dark... can what i have be fixed or do I need to use an entirely different code?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2077

Answers (3)

Bobi
Bobi

Reputation: 1

Use nl2br(); 

$message = nl2br($name . " " . " wrote this:" . "\n" . $_POST['message'] . $_POST['phone'] . $_POST['email']  . "\n" . $_POST['radio']);

Upvotes: 0

eldblz
eldblz

Reputation: 808

I used to use "\n":

$text = 'line1\n line 2\n line 3';

The result were:

line1\n
line2\n
line3

And i was not satisfied so i found PHP_EOL 

$text = 'line 1' . PHP_EOL . 'line 2' . PHP_EOL . 'line 3';

The result will be:

line 1
line 2
line 3

"<br>" is a viable solution but you're sending "HTML" formatted email.

Upvotes: 0

Michal Fabry
Michal Fabry

Reputation: 19

You should use \n as an end line.

And please change {} to []:

$fields["title"] = "Title";
$fields["name"] = "Name";
$fields["email"] = "email";
$fields["telephone"] = "telephone";
...

Upvotes: 1

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