Hi Gordon,
> WITHOUT using HTML email - Is there a way to format it, so that all
> the characters are the same height/width... - No matter what the
> end-user uses for email..
>
> EG :-
>
> if I want to put numbers in, - EG :-
>
> Result1 95,776
> result2 4567
>
> the '67' comes EXACTLY under the '76' - even though the 2nd line has
> spaces in it (smaller width than numbers)....
>
> Im using PHPmailer as my main email programme...
There are two possibilities: the user has a plain text email client or the
user uses something with formatting. The first is easy, this usually uses a
fixed width text font, so just fill with spaces: calculate the length of the
strings and fill in the space that has to be left open with spaces.
If the user uses a HTML interpreting client, force it to use a fixed width
font using <pre>...</pre> and proceed as before.
Actually without HTML it is much easier, problem is these days you cannot
trust people anymore to not have an HTML based email client...
function fill($MessageString, $NumberOfSpaces) {
for ($i=0;$i<$NumberOfSpaces;$i++) {
$MessageString .= " ";
}
}
Now in the procedure that creates the message to be sent ($MessageString)
feel free to use something like:
$MessageString .=
$Article.(fill($n)).$CurrencySymbol.(fill($m)).number_format($Amount,..,..,.
.,..);
where n and m are derved from the lengths of $Article and $Amount
Marc
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