Apply word wrap to PHP mail script - how to, my way not working.

[Iconic_creator]

I'm trying to add a word wrap function to this script.
This is just a "dummy" practice script.

For some reason it's not working.

This is what I have.

$address = "test@test.com";
$subject = "New Form Details Entered!";

$message = "<b>Web Message:</b><br><br>";
$message .= "<b>First Name:</b> ".$_POST['firstName']."<br>";
$message .= "<b>Last Name:</b> ".$_POST['lastName']."<br>";
$message .= "<b>Email:</b> ".$_POST['Email']."<br>";
$message .= "<b>Phone Number:</b> ".$_POST['phoneNumber']."<br><br>";
$message .= "<b>Comments/Message:</b><br> ".$_POST['comments']."<br>";

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: '.$_POST['firstName']." ".$_POST['lastName'].'<test@test.com>' . "\r\n";

$message = wordwrap($message, 70);
mail($address, $subject, $message, $headers);

?>

As of this point the text in the comment area goes to the end of the browser window.

Any ideas how I can fix that?

IC

[imaginethis]

you would have to specify <br> if you want it to break the line in the browser. If you view the source you'll see the line breaks. Thats because its rending using the \n, \r\n if your using windows, character.

 wordwrap($text, 20, "<br />\n"); 

[Iconic_creator]

you would have to specify <br> if you want it to break the line in the browser. If you view the source you'll see the line breaks. Thats because its rending using the \n, \r\n if your using windows, character.

 wordwrap($text, 20, "<br />\n"); 

Thanks for the "fix" really appreciate your help.
But how do I do this if I wanted to apply the word wrap only to the comments and not the entire message variable.

The point only the comment variable contains the text area.

Any ideas?

Thanks again.

IC

[imaginethis]

apply wordwrap() to $_POST['comments']?

[Iconic_creator]

Just out of curiosity, when I get the mail, the word wrap works well but when I filled the text area and enter a line break or started a new paragraph, the message I received contained no line break.

So if I get a very long message, it's hard to read because all the text are all jammed together.

So is there a way you can script a mail so that it carries out user line breaks or new paragraph or is this the way PHP works in general?

Thanks for your help.

IC

[imaginethis]

You can try nl2br to convert line breaks to <br>

[Iconic_creator]

You can try nl2br to convert line breaks to <br>

Okay you just lost me, I should have mentioned, I'm very new to PHP and just getting my feet wet so please be patient if I asked you to elaborate further if you can.

Thanks again.

IC

[imaginethis]

nl2br is a function that will replace the \n or \r\n to <br>. Just try it and you'll understand.
[php
echo nl2br("this is a \n line that has been \n broken up over \n 4 lines.");
[/php]