is fgets causing these line breaks

[Bill]

I am downloading data from a website that displays it in a table
$fp = fopen("a website page", 'r');

The following accesses the stream one <td> element at a time
$myData = fgets($fp);

Then I select the $myData that I want and add them to a string, $str1
while(condition ){
$str1 = $str1.$myData;
$myData = fgets($fp);
}

then strip the html tags from the string
$body = strip_tags($str 1);

and use the resulting string as the body of an email
mail($to,$subje ct,$body,$from)


If I echo $body to the php page doing all this, $body displays as a single
line with no line breaks.
However the resulting email displays $body as a series of lines
corresponding to those derived from $myData = fgets($fp).
Can someone please explain what is happening here?
Ideally I would like to be able format $body so the email lines break
differently to this.

Thanks

[Pedro Graca]

Re: is fgets causing these line breaks

Bill wrote:[color=blue]
> I am downloading data from a website that displays it in a table
> $fp = fopen("a website page", 'r');
>
> The following accesses the stream one <td> element at a time
> $myData = fgets($fp);[/color]

fgets() returns a string with the newline attached!

You may want to trim() it before processing further:

$myData = trim(fgets($fp) );


[snip][color=blue]
> If I echo $body to the php page doing all this, $body displays as a single
> line with no line breaks.[/color]

Line breaks do not show up in the browser. Check the HTML source and I'm
pretty sure you will find the line breaks there.
[color=blue]
> However the resulting email displays $body as a series of lines
> corresponding to those derived from $myData = fgets($fp).[/color]

The line breaks do show on mail bodies.
[unless you send (bad) HTML mail]
[color=blue]
> Can someone please explain what is happening here?
> Ideally I would like to be able format $body so the email lines break
> differently to this.[/color]

Hopefully you will be able to do it now.

Happy Coding :-)
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