Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm having an odd problem with formatting of line feeds in an email my
> site automatically sends to me when someone comments on one of my blog
> entries.
>
> For some reason "\r\n" characters are coming through exactly like that
> in the email, and yet the same value being stored in the backend MySQL
> database seems to represent the carriage-return \ line-feed characters
> as it should.
>
> A typical example of the value when sent in the email would be:
>
> Lol, hi Duncan.\r\n\r\nIt\'s possible that this post once had some
> comments. I lost most of PT at one point when my host had a harddrive
> crash, and salvaged a lot of entries from local copies on my computer,
> and notes I\'d scribbled in my journals and so on.\r\n\r\nStill, it\'s
> great to see you commenting on the post that made you a legend on
> PT!\r\n\r\nMuch warmth,\r\n\r\nMr Banderas
>
> The odd thing is that the rest of the email is correctly interpreting
> line-feed characters, it's only the value entered on the comment form
> that represents CR \ LFs as normal characters.
>
> I'm not sure if this is the culprit, but because my remote host for this
> site has magic_quotes_gpc on, and my local setup doesn't, I run the
> following function every time a page is requested where form processing
> is performed:
>
> function traverse ( &$arr )
> {
> if ( !is_array ( $arr ) )
> return;
>
> foreach ( $arr as $key => $val )
> is_array ( $arr[$key] ) ? traverse ( $arr[$key] ) : (
> $arr[$key] = stripslashes ( $arr[$key] ) );
> }
>
> Can anyone give me any thoughts on how to represent these CR \ LF
> characters properly in the email?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Murray
>
you probably have it surrounded in single quotes, PHP only converts \n
or \r\n when its enclosed within double quotes
James
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