baruch menachem

I have a small mail form I am working on. I want it to send the text entered by the person sending the email with the line breaks in, but so far they aren't showing up.

I understood that if I used the wrap="physical" in my HTML description of the field it would pass the line feed through. Like so:

Right now, it still passes through as a single line. Is there something I can do on the receiving end to make the line feeds show?

psychdev

newline escape sequence works for me.. if you are using php echo command...

ie)

$msg = "Hello! \n Thank you for signing up!";

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baruch menachem

I found a really good way of solving this on another board. The only thing is, I think I am using the wrong char.


the code looks like this:

the problem with this is, it takes all the line breaks from the text area and makes them new lines. I want to put in a new line when the author of the message makes a new line. So I think 13 is the wrong number. Especially when I look at the source of my web page after it is done, and the source is formated correctly, but the text on the HTML page is not.

etono

I am a little unsure about if you are trying to send the textarea input in an email or display it on a webpage, but line breaks in the textarea box are saved as "\n". If you want the line break in an email you may need to add a "\r", so run your message through str_replace function like this:

<?php
$_POST['message'] = str_replace("\n", "\n\r", $_POST['message']);
?>

If you want to display the message to a webpage then you can use the nl2br function like this:

<?php
echo nl2br($_POST['message']);
?>

Hope this helps.

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