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

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  • daJunkCollector
    New Member
    • Jun 2007
    • 76
    #1

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

    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.c om";
    $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["address1Va r"];
    $message .= $_POST["address2Va r"];
    $message .= $_POST["cityVar"];
    $message .= $_POST["stateVar"];
    $message .= $_POST["zipcodeVar "];
    $message .= $_POST["phoneVar"];
    $message .= $_POST["faxVar"];
    $message .= $_POST["websiteVar "];
    $message .= $_POST["commentsVa r"];

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

    ?>[/PHP]
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    • pbmods
      Recognized Expert Expert
      • Apr 2007
      • 5821
      #2
      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:

      [code=php]
      <?php
      $sendTo = "me@gmail.c om";
      $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);
      ?>
      [/code]

      PHP: Strings - Manual
      http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc
      Strings

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        • digitalpbk
          New Member
          • Jun 2007
          • 4
          #3
          alternatively you can mail the entire in HTML format so you just need to add [HTML]<br/>[/HTML] after every line.

          [PHP]
          function sendHTMLMail($n ame,$email,$bod y,$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.c om>" . "\r\n";

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

          }
          [/PHP]

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            • daJunkCollector
              New Member
              • Jun 2007
              • 76
              #4
              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.

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