Saving formatting in variables

[Jim]

Hi All,
I would appreciate a pointer on this problem, if you please.

I am writing a 'tell a friend' page for my www site. Essentially, the
user opens the page, fills out a form, click submit, the text of the
email that will be sent to their friend is presented on screen. If they
like it, they press send, and an email is sent to their friend.

The main body of the email is in a variable, which contains paragraph
formatting etc. The problem I am having is that the paragraph
formatting is not transmitted to the html page that they review, and
that page looks messy. Of course, I tried putting in html formatting in
the variable, but then this literally appears in the email. Does anyone
know a way of solving this problem?

Ta in advance,
Jim

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: Saving formatting in variables

Message-ID: <1159830218.822 326.22480@m73g2 000cwd.googlegr oups.comfrom
Jim contained the following:

>Does anyone
>know a way of solving this problem?

1. Use nl2br() on the output to the screen.
or
2. Use <pre></pre>

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[Jim]

Re: Saving formatting in variables

Hi Geoff,

Thanks, much appreciated,

Jim

Geoff Berrow wrote:

Message-ID: <1159830218.822 326.22480@m73g2 000cwd.googlegr oups.comfrom
Jim contained the following:
>

Does anyone
know a way of solving this problem?

>
1. Use nl2br() on the output to the screen.
or
2. Use <pre></pre>
>
--
Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/