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Wickham

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I found this code on php.net page

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

<?php
// The message
$message = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";

// Send
mail('caffeinated@example.com', 'My Subject', $message);
?>

but when I test with an echo statement like this:-

<?php
$message = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";
echo "$message";
?>

in WampServer2 there aren't any line breaks. Why Not? Has php.net given a wrong example? How can I get \n or \r\n to create a line break from a variable?

 

I really want to concatenate several variables like:-

$name = "Name";
$email = "Email";
$message = "Message";
$messagebody = $name . "\r\n" . $email . "\r\n" . $message;
echo "$messagebody";

but there aren't any line breaks, it's all on one line. How do I make \r\n work?

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I am intending to use \r\n in a concatenated variable in an email function but I thought I would test it first. Why should it work in an email function but not in an echo statement?

 

Would it make any difference if it was a plain text email or if I included these headers

$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";

to make an html email?

Note that it's used in the headers code, but of course that doesn't print out.

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