Form sending email and HTML tags

[codeispoetry]

All the activities are happening in .php file.

After collecting all the Inputs from the form by the user. The output is generated like this.

ob_start(); ?>

		First Name: <?= $firstname; ?>
		Family Name: <?= $familyname; ?>
		Email: <?= $email; ?>
		Other Name: <?= $other_names; ?>
		DOB: <?= $dob_day; ?>
		DOM: <?= $dob_month; ?>
		DOY: <?= $dob_year; ?>

<?php
		$message = ob_get_clean();

If i try to clean the output atleast every item in one uniqe row. If i do this:

First Name: <?= $firstname; ?> <br>
Line break is occurring, but in the received email <br> tag is also visible.

There must be a certain method to achieve the desired objective.

[WebSteve]

You may want to duplicate the code so you are outputting to HTML in the first instance and email in the second.

For the second, replace
with \r\n or %0D%0A for line breaks readable in email.

[codeispoetry]

@WebSteve

You may want to duplicate the code

what does that means sir? Please pardon?

Are you asking me to put the whole code here?

This needs to be echoed in PHP tags →

@WebSteve

\r\n or %0D%0A

[WebSteve]

The code the way you have it with <br> is good for HTML. Underneath all that code put it like:
First Name: <?= $firstname; ?> \r\n
… when you want it to output to email. Or are you trying to format the email as HTML?

[codeispoetry]

@WebSteve

\r\n

Even
was working, but those also appears in email. see here →

Thanks.

N.B. I tried that on few line.

[WebSteve]

An alternate is to try %0D%0A in place of /r/n (for a carriage return (%0D) and line feed (%0A)).

[droopsnoot]

What are you using to send the email? The standard PHP mail() function or one of the other libraries? Are you sending the proper MIME headers?

[codeispoetry]

@droopsnoot

PHP mail()

WP Mail function(which uses PHP mailer) along with WP SMTP clubbed with mailgun.

@droopsnoot

Are you sending the proper MIME headers?

[codeispoetry]

@WebSteve

%0D%0A

same issue. Creating a Line break, but those tags are also present there.

[droopsnoot]

@codeispoetry

WP Mail function(which uses PHP mailer) along with WP SMTP clubbed with mailgun.

@the doc for that

The default content type is ‘text/plain’ which does not allow using HTML. However, you can set the content type of the email by using the ‘wp_mail_content_type’ filter.

What I was getting at is are you telling the mail function to use html for the message body? I just wondered if that was elsewhere in the code, but primarily because your <br> tags are showing rather than being interpreted, which suggests the email is being sent as plain text.

ETA: Also note that sending emails from the address that your form-filler typed into their form is fraught with issues. Most commercial mail servers will only send emails from a domain that they’re configured to handle. You’d be better to send the email from an address of your own, and set the “Reply-to” header to the form-fillers email address.

[codeispoetry]

@droopsnoot

but primarily because your <br> tags are showing rather than being interpreted, which suggests the email is being sent as plain text.

That is the problem, and the cause of this thread creation. what is the solution?

@droopsnoot

You’d be better to send the email from an address of your own, and set the “Reply-to” header to the form-fillers email address.

That is already been done. I am using mailgun SMTP to send emails.

[droopsnoot]

@codeispoetry

That is the problem, and the cause of this thread creation. what is the solution?

If you open the documentation for wp_mail ( https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_mail/ ) and find that bit that I quoted, the mention of wp_mail_content_type is a link to another page in their documentation that shows how to specify HTML email contents.

@codeispoetry

That is already been done.

OK, good. It’s just that your code (which I can’t quote because you’ve posted it as an image for some reason) is specifying that the email is sent from $email, which is the same value that you put into the body of your email along with the other form contents, which led me to presume that it’s the form-fillers email. I’m not familiar with mailgun, so maybe that deals with it.

[codeispoetry]

@droopsnoot

wp_mail_content_type

So if my understanding is not wrong. Putting this →

function wpdocs_set_html_mail_content_type() {
    return 'text/html';
}
add_filter( 'wp_mail_content_type', 'wpdocs_set_html_mail_content_type' );

will fix the whole issue.

[droopsnoot]

That seems to be the case, according to the notes on that page. Obviously you might need to have other html in the mail contents to make it display properly. Only way to be sure is to try it.