Hi,

I don't know much of php and i have a form on my website that, for now, sends its content like this:

"

topic of the text-area : content of the text area

"

i would like the mail to look more like this:

 

"

topic of the text-area:

content of the text area

"

 

and i think the code part is this one :

 

if ($mField->type == '1') {
   print '<textarea class="rapid_contact_ex textarea ' . $mod_class_suffix . '" name="'.$form_id.'rpx_'.$field_name.'" cols="' . $t_cols . '" rows="' . $t_rows . '">';
   if (isset($_POST[$form_id."rpx_".$field_name])) {
 print $_POST[$form_id."rpx_".$field_name];
   }
   else {
 print JText::_($mField->default);
   }
   print '</textarea>'."\n";
 }

 

i played with "\n" or nl2br() but in vain, i can't manage to get what i want.

could you please help me with this?

 

thanks a lot !

Windows server? Give \r\n a go instead of \n.

 

eg:

 

first line\r\nsecond line

 

should produce...

 

first line

second line

 

On *nix servers \n should so the job.

and how do i check which is first line and which is second? i know i didn't give much code, but i'm really not into php... i can give more code if you want me to?

Your topic title says email so look for the mail function which could look something like this:-

mail( $admin, "Feedback: $subject", "$name\r\n$email\r\n$message\r\n$component $size\r\n$delivery\r\n$confirmation", "From: $name <$admin>" );

where the \r\n should make a line break.

could $_POST be the mail function i'm looking for?

Nope, $_POST is a special variable which holds any data posted to the page, it's unrelated to the mail() function (in fact it's not even a function!).

 

The mail() function works like this:

 

$to = "myaddress@mydomain.com";
$subject = "automatic email from my website";
$message = "This is the first line of the email body, \r\n this is the second line.";
mail( $to , $subject , $message );

 

There's more to it than that, you need to check for tampered headers and so on if there's any user input going on. Oh, and to keep your server admin/owner happy please don't call it mailform.php ! There are lots of automated bots that trawl through websites looking for mailform.php and similar names, and then scanning them for vulnerabilities. A surprising amount of spam is sent through this route.

mmmh i'll have a look and try with your infos,

thanks a lot ! ! !

Actually, my reference to the mail function may be misleading. Are you extracting from a database to display in rows in the email and want items from one database field to be displayed with a line break? That may need different help and perhaps the database entry needs a line break inserted in the field, or are "topic of the text-area:" and "content of the text area" in separate dabase fields?