Mail and PHP

[Phil-man]

Hi. I'm having problems sending mail using PHP. I have a form in a regular HTML file, and it contains just a TEXTAREA field, the value of which is submitted to the PHP file/script to be e-mailed. When I receive the e-mail, some characters have been "escaped", and there are extra lines. For example, if I enter the following in the TEXTAREA box:

Hi, it's January

It's cold

The resulting e-mail displays the following:

Hi, it\'s January



It\'s cold

(That should be a backslash before each apostrophe... just in case the forum script messes with it!)

[freddydoesphp]

Just use $var = stripslashes($var); Before using it in the mail command

[Phil-man]

Somehow I knew you'd be there to answer. :-) That works great for the slashes. THANK YOU. Any ideas on the extra lines? If I do

Red
Blue
Green

I instead get

Red

Blue

Green

THANKS again.

[freddydoesphp]

$str = ereg_replace("\\n", "", $str);

[Phil-man]

Thank you once again. Just so you know, the program only wanted one backslash before the letter 'n'. When I used two backslashes, my e-mail arrived with no n's in it! It made for some interesting reading. :-)

I appreciate the help.

[firepages]

ooops!
<Edited by firepages on 01-14-2001 at 12:04 AM>