PHP's mail()

[mPeror]

I have 2 questions :

1) I've put a newline character (\n) in the mail's body , but when i send the e-mail to someone it shows as \n not a newline. Why is that?

2) Single quotes appear with a backslash before them (i.e : "don\'t , won\'t ..etc") , how do i remove them? (stripslashes() didn't work)


thanks for your time

[mPeror]

anyone?

[REMIYA]

Write down what exactly have you written, and may be then you will get some answers.

[mPeror]

$to = 'some@email.com';
$subject = ' test email';
$header = 'From: [email]whatever@email.com[/email]';

// the next line will show as :
// "This shouldn\'t \n appear on \n one line"
// when i view it in my e-mail

$body = "This shouldn't \n appear on \n one line";

stripslashes($body);

mail($to, $subject, $body, $header); 

[michelangelo]

It sounds like a magic quotes problem. Try turning them off using a .htaccess file, or in the PHP ini, and see how you go.

[shadowbox]

You also will want to change the stripslashes bit to

$body = stripslashes($body);

[Quaint]

You also will want to change the stripslashes bit to

$body = stripslashes($body);

LOL, yeah, you should want to do that

[djdykes]

for newlines try adding in \r\n instead of just \n

also, it's worth notiing that the message body of most emails is 70 characters, so i would run it through the wordwrap function as well...

also

$body = "This shouldn't \n appear on \n one line"; 

the \' doesn't need to be there as you are inside a double quoted string. Thus the single quote does not need to be escaped.

$body = "this is a ' single quote";

echo $body;

// should appear as
// this is a ' escaped single quote