[PHP] Line breaks in mail function?
Hi All, I'm building a site on a new web host and am currently working on feedback forms. I'm using the mail() function to send the feedback to the destination mail account, and I'm having problems getting the body of the email to line break. I've tried constructing the body with both \n\n and \r\n\r\n terminating lines where I want line breaks to appear, but both return an email with the body in one long string showing the actual \n\n or \r\n\r\n characters, as opposed to interpreting them as line breaks. Example code: $body = 'From: ' . $name . '\r\n\r\n'; $body .= 'Email:' . $email . '\r\n\r\n'; $body .= 'IP Address: ' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . '\r\n\r\n'; $body .= 'Feedback:\r\n\r\n'; $body .= $feedback; mail([EMAIL PROTECTED], Feedback, $body, From: $email\r\nReply-To: $email\r\nX-Mailer: PHP/ . phpversion()); As I said above, I've also tried using \n\n instead of \r\n\r\n. Can anyone give me some advive on how to get the linebreak characters interpreted as linebreaks? Many thanks and much warmth, Murray -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Line breaks in mail function?
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 12:20 +1000, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote: Example code: $body = 'From: ' . $name . '\r\n\r\n'; $body .= 'Email:' . $email . '\r\n\r\n'; $body .= 'IP Address: ' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . '\r\n\r\n'; $body .= 'Feedback:\r\n\r\n'; $body .= $feedback; mail([EMAIL PROTECTED], Feedback, $body, From: $email\r\nReply-To: $email\r\nX-Mailer: PHP/ . phpversion()); As I said above, I've also tried using \n\n instead of \r\n\r\n. Can anyone give me some advive on how to get the linebreak characters interpreted as linebreaks? Use double quotes around the parts that have \r and \n characters if you want them to be interpreted. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene General Manager Album Limited e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://www.album.co.nz/ b: http://jbg.name/ p: 0800 4 ALBUM (0800 425 286) or +64 21 232 3303 a: PO Box 579, Christchurch 8015, New Zealand -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Line breaks in mail function?
Hi Murray, Try doing something like this: --- $body = From: $name Email: $email IP Address: $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] Feedback: $feedback ; $fromaddr = $email Reply-To: $email X-Mailer: PHP/ . phpversion(); mail([EMAIL PROTECTED], Feedback, $body, $fromaddr); --- I haven't tested this 'actual' piece of code, but I've used similar in other emailing scripts. Regards, Richie ! -Original Message- From: Murray @ PlanetThoughtful [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 7 November 2005 10:21 am To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Line breaks in mail function? Hi All, I'm building a site on a new web host and am currently working on feedback forms. I'm using the mail() function to send the feedback to the destination mail account, and I'm having problems getting the body of the email to line break. I've tried constructing the body with both \n\n and \r\n\r\n terminating lines where I want line breaks to appear, but both return an email with the body in one long string showing the actual \n\n or \r\n\r\n characters, as opposed to interpreting them as line breaks. Example code: $body = 'From: ' . $name . '\r\n\r\n'; $body .= 'Email:' . $email . '\r\n\r\n'; $body .= 'IP Address: ' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . '\r\n\r\n'; $body .= 'Feedback:\r\n\r\n'; $body .= $feedback; mail([EMAIL PROTECTED], Feedback, $body, From: $email\r\nReply-To: $email\r\nX-Mailer: PHP/ . phpversion()); As I said above, I've also tried using \n\n instead of \r\n\r\n. Can anyone give me some advive on how to get the linebreak characters interpreted as linebreaks? Many thanks and much warmth, Murray -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Line breaks in mail function?
Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 12:20 +1000, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote: Example code: $body = 'From: ' . $name . '\r\n\r\n'; $body .= 'Email:' . $email . '\r\n\r\n'; $body .= 'IP Address: ' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . '\r\n\r\n'; $body .= 'Feedback:\r\n\r\n'; $body .= $feedback; mail([EMAIL PROTECTED], Feedback, $body, From: $email\r\nReply-To: $email\r\nX-Mailer: PHP/ . phpversion()); As I said above, I've also tried using \n\n instead of \r\n\r\n. Can anyone give me some advive on how to get the linebreak characters interpreted as linebreaks? Use double quotes around the parts that have \r and \n characters if you want them to be interpreted. Ah, damn you Jasper, I should have noticed that myself. Don't you hate it when you've been staring at code too long to notice the obvious? Thank you! Much warmth, Murray -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Line breaks in form
Greetings, On one of my forms to send email, I have multiple line breaks with different paragraphs. I looked up the nl2br function and that looks like an option, but I would ideally like to wrap these paragraphs inside p/p tags. Is there a way to do this easily? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Chris
Re: [PHP] Line breaks in form
Chris Farrugia wrote:
Greetings,
On one of my forms to send email, I have multiple line breaks with different
paragraphs. I looked up the nl2br function and that looks like an option,
but I would ideally like to wrap these paragraphs inside p/p tags. Is
there a way to do this easily? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I'm sure somebody will have a 'cleaner' way, but...
$text = preg_split ( /\n/, $inputText );
for ( $i = 0; $i sizeof ( $text ); $i++ ) {
if ( $text[$i] != ) {
$text[$i] = p . $text[$i] . /p;
}
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Re: [PHP] Line breaks in form
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:29:59 -0500, Chris Farrugia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On one of my forms to send email, I have multiple line breaks with different paragraphs. I looked up the nl2br function and that looks like an option, but I would ideally like to wrap these paragraphs inside p/p tags. Is there a way to do this easily? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. explode() the text by the \n character, this will give you an array. Iterate over the array and add your p tags there. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://gdconsultants.com/ http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] line breaks in email text messages
How do I preserve line breaks in the body of an email message? The
email message is plain text and I simply want to have a return
included between each element entered into a form. I have used \n or
\r\n (since this is a Windows server) to no avail. The email message
I get back has all the data, but no line breaks. Any hints?
$emailbody = 'Sent by: '.$_POST['name'];
$emailbody .= \nEmail: .$email_from;
if(isset($_POST['company'])){
$emailbody .= \nCompany: .$_POST['company'];
}
if(isset($_POST['address'])){
$emailbody .= \nAddress: .$_POST['address'];
}
... etc ...
mail($email_to,$email_subject,$emailbody,$header)
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Re: [PHP] line breaks in email text messages
At 9:11 AM +0800 9/14/04, Michael Collins wrote: How do I preserve line breaks in the body of an email message? Nevermind got it figured out. sorry for the extra bandwidth -- Michael __ ||| Michael Collins ||| Kuwago Inc ||| Singapore and Seattle USA -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Line breaks again....
Hi, I have managed to get the line breaks to show up on my site no problem, but I still get one long line when it is sent to my email. I have looked and looked and have read all the stuff I could find on \r\n, so I'm not sure where to go from here since it's not working... Suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, Beauford
Re: [PHP] Line breaks again....
PHP User wrote: I have managed to get the line breaks to show up on my site no problem, but I still get one long line when it is sent to my email. I have looked and looked and have read all the stuff I could find on \r\n, so I'm not sure where to go from here since it's not working... Are you viewing HTML email or plain text? Using \r\n or \n will work fine in most email viewers. Are you sure you're not stripping the \n from the text to show it with br in HTML and then screwing up the presentation in email? Hard to tell what you're doing without any code... hint hint... -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals www.phparch.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Line breaks again....
I am using Outlook 2003 in text mode to view messages (which is what I
want). This is the relevent code...
Code for input from form .
$text=str_replace(\n,\r\n,$text);
* this replaces \n before the email is sent. Not sure this is necessary or
right, but nothing else I have tried works either *
if($mail-Send()) * email gets sent
{
$text=str_replace(\n,br,$text);
$text=str_replace(br /,,$text);
* these two lines make it display properly on my site *
. Code to display message
Thanks
-Original Message-
From: John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: July 21, 2004 6:36 PM
To: PHP User
Cc: PHP
Subject: Re: [PHP] Line breaks again
PHP User wrote:
I have managed to get the line breaks to show up on my site no problem,
but
I still get one long line when it is sent to my email. I have looked and
looked and have read all the stuff I could find on \r\n, so I'm not sure
where to go from here since it's not working...
Are you viewing HTML email or plain text? Using \r\n or \n will work
fine in most email viewers. Are you sure you're not stripping the \n
from the text to show it with br in HTML and then screwing up the
presentation in email? Hard to tell what you're doing without any
code... hint hint...
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Re: [PHP] Line breaks again....
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:42:04 -0400, PHP User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am using Outlook 2003 in text mode to view messages (which is what I
want).
AHA! Outlook, by default, removes extra line breaks in text
messages. Do you see a message which says this in Outlook? This is an
option you can turn off. If this doesn't work, just send the message
as HTML. There's really no reason not to, especially if you're in
Outlook.
This is the relevent code...
Code for input from form .
$text=str_replace(\n,\r\n,$text);
I've used the following to fix newlines:
$text=str_replace(\r\n,\n,$text);
$text=str_replace(\r,\n,$text);
$text=str_replace(\n,\r\n,$text);
* this replaces \n before the email is sent. Not sure this is necessary or
right, but nothing else I have tried works either *
if($mail-Send()) * email gets sent
{
$text=str_replace(\n,br,$text);
$text=str_replace(br /,,$text);
* these two lines make it display properly on my site *
. Code to display message
Thanks
-Original Message-
From: John W. Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: July 21, 2004 6:36 PM
To: PHP User
Cc: PHP
Subject: Re: [PHP] Line breaks again
PHP User wrote:
I have managed to get the line breaks to show up on my site no problem,
but
I still get one long line when it is sent to my email. I have looked and
looked and have read all the stuff I could find on \r\n, so I'm not sure
where to go from here since it's not working...
Are you viewing HTML email or plain text? Using \r\n or \n will work
fine in most email viewers. Are you sure you're not stripping the \n
from the text to show it with br in HTML and then screwing up the
presentation in email? Hard to tell what you're doing without any
code... hint hint...
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Re: [PHP] Line breaks again....
On Thursday 22 July 2004 13:13, Justin Patrin wrote: AHA! Outlook, by default, removes extra line breaks in text messages. Do you see a message which says this in Outlook? This is an option you can turn off. If this doesn't work, just send the message as HTML. There's really no reason not to, especially if you're in Outlook. Haven't used OUtlook for years - viewing the message source (Alt-ENTER ?) will show the message verbatim, with all newlines etc wouldn't it? -- Jason Wong - Gremlins Associates - www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design Hosting * Internet Intranet Applications Development * -- Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general -- /* I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash. -- Sigmund Freud */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Line breaks in PHP.
Question: When you hit enter in a text box is that classified as a \n? --- Philip J. Newman Master Developer PhilipNZ.com [NZ] Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Line breaks in PHP.
On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 03:10 PM, Philip J. Newman wrote: Question: When you hit enter in a text box is that classified as a \n? generally, yes. depending on the client platform, it might be an \r\n or \r (I've heard)... justin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Line breaks in PHP.
Ok thats cool, guess i'll look for both, and only one in the data - Original Message - From: Justin French [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 5:35 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Line breaks in PHP. On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 03:10 PM, Philip J. Newman wrote: Question: When you hit enter in a text box is that classified as a \n? generally, yes. depending on the client platform, it might be an \r\n or \r (I've heard)... justin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] line breaks
Greetings!
I'm writing a script that will take the contents of a text file that has
several lines of user accounts and creates a shell script with chown
commands for each user in that text file. My problem is that when it
writes the shell script file it puts a line break after the colon in
between $buffer and html. How do I prevent this from doing that?
Thanks,
Rod
Code:
---
$fhandle = fopen (/scripts/thescript.sh , a);
$handle = fopen (/scripts/mail_list.txt, r);
while (!feof ($handle)) {
$buffer = fgets($handle, 1000);
fwrite ($fhandle, chown $buffer:html
/scripts/var/spool/mail/$buffer\n, 4096);
}
fclose ($handle);
fclose ($fhandle);
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Re: [PHP] line breaks
Rodney Green wrote:
Greetings!
I'm writing a script that will take the contents of a text file that has
several lines of user accounts and creates a shell script with chown
commands for each user in that text file. My problem is that when it
writes the shell script file it puts a line break after the colon in
between $buffer and html. How do I prevent this from doing that?
Thanks,
Rod
Code:
---
$fhandle = fopen (/scripts/thescript.sh , a);
$handle = fopen (/scripts/mail_list.txt, r);
while (!feof ($handle)) {
$buffer = fgets($handle, 1000);
fwrite ($fhandle, chown $buffer:html
/scripts/var/spool/mail/$buffer\n, 4096);
}
fclose ($handle);
fclose ($fhandle);
Chances are, $buffer has the line break on it when you read it in from
the text file. Try striping off whitespace before you write...
while (!feof ($handle)) {
$buffer = rtrim ( fgets($handle, 1000) );
fwrite ($fhandle, chown $buffer:html
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rtrim.php
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Re: [PHP] line breaks
John Nichel wrote:
Chances are, $buffer has the line break on it when you read it in from
the text file. Try striping off whitespace before you write...
while (!feof ($handle)) {
$buffer = rtrim ( fgets($handle, 1000) );
fwrite ($fhandle, chown $buffer:html
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rtrim.php
Thanks John! That was the problem.
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Re: [PHP] line breaks
Rodney Green wrote:
John Nichel wrote:
Chances are, $buffer has the line break on it when you read it in from
the text file. Try striping off whitespace before you write...
while (!feof ($handle)) {
$buffer = rtrim ( fgets($handle, 1000) );
fwrite ($fhandle, chown $buffer:html
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rtrim.php
Thanks John! That was the problem.
Rod
Now that I stop and think about it a bit, rtrim() may hurt you here.
Since you're using a fread to read the text file, it will read the bytes
you tell it (1000), then move on to the next line of code. So if you
have a line as such in your text file...
./command --this=that
and the fread() reaches the byte limit on the whitespace after command,
it's going to remove that, and you'll end up with
./command--this=that
You can tell rtim() what characters to strip by doing...
rtrim ( $foo, \n );
but I've seen rtrim() strip blank spaces even when this is done. A
better way may be to change the way you're reading in the source file;
instead of using a fread, you can use file(), which will put each line
in an array element...This way, it won't stop reading in the middle of a
line
$fhandle = fopen (/scripts/thescript.sh , a);
$handle = file ( /scripts/mail_list.txt );
for ( $i = 0; $i sizeof ($handle); $i++ ) {
$buffer = rtrim ( $handle[$i] );
fwrite ($fhandle, chown $buffer:html
/scripts/var/spool/mail/$buffer\n, 4096);
}
fclose ($fhandle);
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Re: [PHP] line breaks
John Nichel wrote:
Rodney Green wrote:
John Nichel wrote:
Chances are, $buffer has the line break on it when you read it in
from the text file. Try striping off whitespace before you write...
while (!feof ($handle)) {
$buffer = rtrim ( fgets($handle, 1000) );
fwrite ($fhandle, chown $buffer:html
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rtrim.php
Thanks John! That was the problem.
Rod
Now that I stop and think about it a bit, rtrim() may hurt you here.
Since you're using a fread to read the text file, it will read the
bytes you tell it (1000), then move on to the next line of code. So
if you have a line as such in your text file...
./command --this=that
and the fread() reaches the byte limit on the whitespace after
command, it's going to remove that, and you'll end up with
./command--this=that
You can tell rtim() what characters to strip by doing...
rtrim ( $foo, \n );
but I've seen rtrim() strip blank spaces even when this is done. A
better way may be to change the way you're reading in the source file;
instead of using a fread, you can use file(), which will put each line
in an array element...This way, it won't stop reading in the middle of
a line
$fhandle = fopen (/scripts/thescript.sh , a);
$handle = file ( /scripts/mail_list.txt );
for ( $i = 0; $i sizeof ($handle); $i++ ) {
$buffer = rtrim ( $handle[$i] );
fwrite ($fhandle, chown $buffer:html
/scripts/var/spool/mail/$buffer\n, 4096);
}
fclose ($fhandle);
Actually, I'm not having problems with that. The whitespace is still
there in between the commands and arguments, etc. I'm using fgets , not
fread. Not sure what the difference between the two is but I'll check it
out. The problem I am having however is that at the end of the shell
script that is created it puts an additional line. It writes the chown
command line for all of the users then puts the following line with no
user specified.
chown :html /var/spool/mail/
The other lines show up as:
chown rgreen:html /var/spool/mail/rgreen
chown rgreen01:html /var/spool/mail/rgreen01
chown rod:html /var/spool/mail/rod
Any ideas where that extra line is coming from?
thanks again,
Rod
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Re: [PHP] line breaks
Rodney Green wrote:
snip
Actually, I'm not having problems with that. The whitespace is still
there in between the commands and arguments, etc. I'm using fgets , not
fread. Not sure what the difference between the two is but I'll check it
out. The problem I am having however is that at the end of the shell
script that is created it puts an additional line. It writes the chown
command line for all of the users then puts the following line with no
user specified.
chown :html /var/spool/mail/
The other lines show up as:
chown rgreen:html /var/spool/mail/rgreen
chown rgreen01:html /var/spool/mail/rgreen01
chown rod:html /var/spool/mail/rod
Any ideas where that extra line is coming from?
thanks again,
Rod
Is there a carriage return (new line) after the last entry in your text
file?
You can add an if test in there to stop this...
$buffer = rtrim ( $handle[$i] );
if ( $buffer != ) {
fwrite ($fhandle, chown $buffer:html
/scripts/var/spool/mail/$buffer\n, 4096);
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Re: [PHP] line breaks
John Nichel wrote:
Rodney Green wrote:
snip
Actually, I'm not having problems with that. The whitespace is still
there in between the commands and arguments, etc. I'm using fgets ,
not fread. Not sure what the difference between the two is but I'll
check it out. The problem I am having however is that at the end of
the shell script that is created it puts an additional line. It
writes the chown command line for all of the users then puts the
following line with no user specified.
chown :html /var/spool/mail/
The other lines show up as:
chown rgreen:html /var/spool/mail/rgreen
chown rgreen01:html /var/spool/mail/rgreen01
chown rod:html /var/spool/mail/rod
Any ideas where that extra line is coming from?
thanks again,
Rod
Is there a carriage return (new line) after the last entry in your
text file?
You can add an if test in there to stop this...
$buffer = rtrim ( $handle[$i] );
if ( $buffer != ) {
fwrite ($fhandle, chown $buffer:html
/scripts/var/spool/mail/$buffer\n, 4096);
}
Thanks again, John. That was the problem and the if test fixed it.
Rod
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[PHP] Line breaks
Hi, Please help me before I go insane... I have a basic feedback form with: your name your e-mail address E-Mail Subject Message The problem is the line breaks... For example, they might type in the following (between the dashed lines) into the Message textarea: -- Hi, Please send me some info. Thanks, Gav -- When I receive the mail, however, it looks like this: -- Hi, Please send me some info. Thanks, Gav -- This is fine for such a short message, but lengthy messages would be horrid to read if all the line breaks were taken out... Not to mention an unprofessional appearance... I've tried looking at: - wordwrap() - preg_replace() (because sent from Linux machine to Win machine \r \n) - Different WRAP attributes for the textarea. Options are VIRTUAL, PHYSICAL, and NONE/OFF (can't remember which). Not sure if there are ways of doing this using the 1st 2? Couldn't really see anything. Cheers, Gav -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Line breaks
I have a basic feedback form with: your name your e-mail address E-Mail Subject Message The problem is the line breaks... For example, they might type in the following (between the dashed lines) into the Message textarea: -- Hi, Please send me some info. Thanks, Gav -- When I receive the mail, however, it looks like this: -- Hi, Please send me some info. Thanks, Gav -- This is fine for such a short message, but lengthy messages would be horrid to read if all the line breaks were taken out... Not to mention an unprofessional appearance... You must be sending HTML mail?? Try the nl2br() function. HTML doesn't understand newlines, only br elements. ---John W. Holmes... PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy today. http://www.phparch.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Line Breaks in dynamic Download
I have a script that allows clients to download their email lists from a database. However I can not get the 'new line' characters (\n \r) to do their job in Notepad when the download is prompted and the file saved to disk. I've simplified the problem with the code below. Both \n and \r display as 'null' or undefined characters in Notepad. What am I doing wrong? ? $file = LINE ONE\nLINE TWO\rLINE THREE\n\r; header(Cache-control: private); header(Content-type: application/octet-stream); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=TEST.txt); echo $file; ? http://www.helpelf.com/texttest.php Click here to run this code. You should be prompted to save the file. Open the resulting file in Notepad on your PC. Tell me if the newlines show as 'null' characters or if each LINE ONE, LINE TWO, etc. shows up on their own lines. Mac users also welcome to try in Simpletext/BBedit. Much thanks, Kevin Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Line Breaks in dynamic Download
?
$file = LINE ONE\nLINE TWO\rLINE THREE\n\r;
Try this instead and see if it works...
$windowsNewLine = chr(13) . chr(10);
$file = LINE ONE{$windowsNewLine}LINE TWO{$windowsNewLine}LINE
THREE{$windowsNewLine};
Not sure if Notepad will interpret \r\n correctly...
Chris
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RE: [PHP] Line Breaks in dynamic Download
[snip] I have a script that allows clients to download their email lists from a database. However I can not get the 'new line' characters (\n \r) to do their job in Notepad when the download is prompted and the file saved to disk. I've simplified the problem with the code below. Both \n and \r display as 'null' or undefined characters in Notepad. What am I doing wrong? ? $file = LINE ONE\nLINE TWO\rLINE THREE\n\r; header(Cache-control: private); header(Content-type: application/octet-stream); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=TEST.txt); echo $file; ? [/snip] They're undefined characters. Notepad has this whole silly Windoze thing going on requiring a carriage return-linefeed at the end of each line you wish break. So you will either need to do \r\n or chr(13) chr(10) at each place you want a break (or a ^m). This happens to be an anomaly with Notepad, which unlike popular belief is not really a text editor, it just plays one on TV. Open your file in WordPAd, and prepare to be amazed. HTH! Jay * * Texas PHP Developers Conf Spring 2003* * T Bar M Resort Conference Center* * New Braunfels, Texas * * Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * Want to present a paper or workshop? Contact now! * * -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Line Breaks in dynamic Download
Much thanks. This works but now it won't propmpt the download. Once the headers are sent anything going to std out is part of the download correct? But this is just printing to the screen. Any thoughts there? ? header(Content-type: application/octet-stream); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=TEST.txt); echo LINE ONE.chr(13).LINE TWO.chr(10).LINE THREE; ? -Kevin - Original Message - From: Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Kevin Stone' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:55 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Line Breaks in dynamic Download [snip] I have a script that allows clients to download their email lists from a database. However I can not get the 'new line' characters (\n \r) to do their job in Notepad when the download is prompted and the file saved to disk. I've simplified the problem with the code below. Both \n and \r display as 'null' or undefined characters in Notepad. What am I doing wrong? ? $file = LINE ONE\nLINE TWO\rLINE THREE\n\r; header(Cache-control: private); header(Content-type: application/octet-stream); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=TEST.txt); echo $file; ? [/snip] They're undefined characters. Notepad has this whole silly Windoze thing going on requiring a carriage return-linefeed at the end of each line you wish break. So you will either need to do \r\n or chr(13) chr(10) at each place you want a break (or a ^m). This happens to be an anomaly with Notepad, which unlike popular belief is not really a text editor, it just plays one on TV. Open your file in WordPAd, and prepare to be amazed. HTH! Jay * * Texas PHP Developers Conf Spring 2003* * T Bar M Resort Conference Center* * New Braunfels, Texas * * Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * Want to present a paper or workshop? Contact now! * * -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Line Breaks in dynamic Download
Here's what your file contains: ccadev:/# od -c TEST.txt 000L I N E O N E \r L I N E T W 020O \n L I N E T H R E E 034 Wordpad handles it. Notepad does not. But you have different line terminators for each line Later, Larry Irwin - Original Message - From: Kevin Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:48 PM Subject: [PHP] Line Breaks in dynamic Download I have a script that allows clients to download their email lists from a database. However I can not get the 'new line' characters (\n \r) to do their job in Notepad when the download is prompted and the file saved to disk. I've simplified the problem with the code below. Both \n and \r display as 'null' or undefined characters in Notepad. What am I doing wrong? ? $file = LINE ONE\nLINE TWO\rLINE THREE\n\r; header(Cache-control: private); header(Content-type: application/octet-stream); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=TEST.txt); echo $file; ? http://www.helpelf.com/texttest.php Click here to run this code. You should be prompted to save the file. Open the resulting file in Notepad on your PC. Tell me if the newlines show as 'null' characters or if each LINE ONE, LINE TWO, etc. shows up on their own lines. Mac users also welcome to try in Simpletext/BBedit. Much thanks, Kevin Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Line Breaks in dynamic Download
[snip] ? header(Content-type: application/octet-stream); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=TEST.txt); echo LINE ONE.chr(13).LINE TWO.chr(10).LINE THREE; ? [/snip] Try this; ? header(Content-type: application/octet-stream); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=TEST.txt); echo LINE ONE.chr(13).chr(10).LINE TWOchr(13).chr(10).LINE THREE; ? HTH! Jay -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Line Breaks in dynamic Download
I used different chars for testing purposes only. chr() function helped with the original problem. Again, the new problem is that the Text is not downloading as a file. It is just being printed to the screen. Any ideas why it wouldn't be prompting the downloading? -Kevin - Original Message - From: Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Kevin Stone' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 1:21 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Line Breaks in dynamic Download [snip] ? header(Content-type: application/octet-stream); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=TEST.txt); echo LINE ONE.chr(13).LINE TWO.chr(10).LINE THREE; ? [/snip] Try this; ? header(Content-type: application/octet-stream); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=TEST.txt); echo LINE ONE.chr(13).chr(10).LINE TWOchr(13).chr(10).LINE THREE; ? HTH! Jay -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Line Breaks in dynamic Download
snip Again, the new problem is that the Text is not downloading as a file. It is just being printed to the screen. /snip I tested the following code: ? header(Content-type: application/octet-stream); header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=TEST.txt); echo LINE ONE.chr(10).LINE TWO.chr(10).LINE THREE; ? on a WinNT 4.0 with Apache 1.3.24 and PHP 4.2.3 and did not come across the same issues as you. I was prompted to download or open the file. However, when I did open the file with Notepad it did not contain any line breaks, Wordpad did have the line breaks. HTH Steven -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Line Breaks in dynamic Download
Thank you all very much. Turns out it was yet another browser cache issue
and a quick reboot solved the problem. Minor modification of just two lines
and I'm back in business. It's the details that'll kill you, eh? :)
Final code...
?
header(Cache-control: private);
header(Content-Type: application/octet-stream);
header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=emaillist.txt);
$query = SELECT $field_str FROM helpelf_email_lists WHERE clientid='$view'
ORDER BY timestamp DESC;
$result = mysql_query($query, $db);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
$file_array = array();
for ($i=0; $icount($row); $i++)
{
// Replace any commas with periods.
$row[$i] = str_replace(',', '.', $row[$i]);
$tmp_row = addslashes($row[$i]);
$file_array[] = $enclosed.$tmp_row.$enclosed;
}
$file_tmp = implode($separator, $file_array);
echo $file_tmp.chr(13).chr(10);
}
?
Again much thanks to everyone who helped me.
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From: Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 1:50 PM
Subject: [PHP] Line Breaks in dynamic Download
snip
Again, the new problem is that the Text is not downloading as a file. It
is
just being printed to the screen.
/snip
I tested the following code:
?
header(Content-type: application/octet-stream);
header(Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=TEST.txt);
echo LINE ONE.chr(10).LINE TWO.chr(10).LINE THREE;
?
on a WinNT 4.0 with Apache 1.3.24 and PHP 4.2.3 and did not come across
the
same issues as you.
I was prompted to download or open the file.
However, when I did open the file with Notepad it did not contain any line
breaks, Wordpad did have the line breaks.
HTH
Steven
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[PHP] Line breaks...
Hi, I have a form inserting data into a database. I'm using nl2br to add br to the data enetered where appropriate. The data is then pulled out of the database and inserted into text fields for editing. Can anyone tell me how to remove the br tags while maintaining the line breaks in the text field? Thanks, Phil - Philip Jeffs The Tickle Group The Gate House Summerseat Bury Lancashire BL9 5PE United Kingdom W: http://www.tickle.co.uk T: 01706 823456 F: 01706 829500 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (daytime) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (evening) -
Re: [PHP] Line breaks...
Don't use nl2br on the data before it goes into the database. Only use it when you are showing that data as html. That way when you pull it into a textfield you will not have to worry about the br / Rick It is very nearly impossible . . . to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. - James Baldwin From: Philip Jeffs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:46:43 +0100 To: PHP LIST [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Line breaks... Hi, I have a form inserting data into a database. I'm using nl2br to add br to the data enetered where appropriate. The data is then pulled out of the database and inserted into text fields for editing. Can anyone tell me how to remove the br tags while maintaining the line breaks in the text field? Thanks, Phil - Philip Jeffs The Tickle Group The Gate House Summerseat Bury Lancashire BL9 5PE United Kingdom W: http://www.tickle.co.uk T: 01706 823456 F: 01706 829500 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (daytime) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (evening) - -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Line breaks...
Hi Phil, I have a form inserting data into a database. I'm using nl2br to add br to the data enetered where appropriate. The data is then pulled out of the database and inserted into text fields for editing. Can anyone tell me how to remove the br tags while maintaining the line breaks in the text field? Don't use nl2br when you're storing the data, use it when you're displaying it. // write data to table $s = INSERT INTO foo SET bar = 'some text \n with a line break'; $q = mysql_query ($s); // read data from table $s = SELECT foo FROM bar; $q = mysql_query ($s); $r = mysql_fetch_array ($q); echo this is . nl2br ($r[foo]); HTH Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] line breaks lost in XSL transformation
I've started experimenting with XML, by having my blogging script output the news to
XML [http://php.techno-weenie.com/supasite/xml/supa.xml]. I've tried transforming it
with an XSL stylesheet [http://php.techno-weenie.com/supasite/test.xsl] to get this
output [http://php.techno-weenie.com/supasite/transform.php]. It looks great, but the
source code looks really bad. It looks like it's stripping all the carriage returns
when it starts matching the news templates. Does anyone know how to get these back?
I like to keep my HTML looking at least a little readable, even if the only parts I
directly edit are the XML and XSL files...
Here's the source of the PHP script I use:
class xsl {
var $xsl_content;
var $xml_content;
var $result;
function xsl($xml, $xsl) {
### open XML and XSL files ###
$xml_handle = fopen($xml, r) or die(Can't open XML file);
$xsl_handle = fopen($xsl, r) or die(Can't open XSL file);
### get the contents ###
$this-xml_content = fread($xml_handle, filesize($xml));
$this-xsl_content = fread($xsl_handle, filesize($xsl));
### process files ###
$handle = xslt_create() or die(Can't create XSLT handle.);
xslt_process($this-xsl_content, $this-xml_content, $this-result);
### add HTML content to the results ###
$this-result = str_replace(, , $this-result);
$this-result = str_replace(, , $this-result);
@xslt_free($handle);
} # end constructor function
} # end class
$xslt = new xsl(xml/supa.xml, test.xsl);
echo $xslt-result;
-
any assistance would be greatly appreciated
rick
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Re: [PHP] Line Breaks in textarea
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 04:44, Nathan Cook wrote: Hello- I am selecting a value from a blob field in a mysql db. The value looks like this: Test 12...3 \r \n br %0%D Test When I print that value in a TEXTAREA$value/TEXTAREA -- The textarea returns exactly what you see above. I am trying to get it to display a line break (so that I can store the line breaks in the db). If you can shed any light on this subject, please share. Thank You, Nathan Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] You might want to make your textarea tag thus: TEXTAREA WRAP=VIRTUAL$value/TEXTAREA to show any EOLs as line breaks. Cue RANT from Richard Lynch on TEXTAREA :-) -- David Robley Techno-JoaT, Web Maintainer, Mail List Admin, etc CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES Flinders University, SOUTH AUSTRALIA Spell chequers dew knot work write. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Line Breaks in textarea
Hello- I am selecting a value from a blob field in a mysql db. The value looks like this: Test 12...3 \r \n br %0%D Test When I print that value in a TEXTAREA$value/TEXTAREA -- The textarea returns exactly what you see above. I am trying to get it to display a line break (so that I can store the line breaks in the db). If you can shed any light on this subject, please share. Thank You, Nathan Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Line Breaks in textarea
try the function nl2br($value) regards, Alva Chew Nathan Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 00cf01c0ff3d$72992160$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:00cf01c0ff3d$72992160$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hello- I am selecting a value from a blob field in a mysql db. The value looks like this: Test 12...3 \r \n br %0%D Test When I print that value in a TEXTAREA$value/TEXTAREA -- The textarea returns exactly what you see above. I am trying to get it to display a line break (so that I can store the line breaks in the db). If you can shed any light on this subject, please share. Thank You, Nathan Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Line breaks in PHP
I have a form that edits the text on a web page by putting the data into a db and then outputting to the webpage when it is called. When I enter my text into my form I use the return key to start new lines, but when the text appears on my webpage it has no line breaks so the text just wraps to the width of the page. Is there any way of PHP picking up these line breaks so that the text will be formatted on my web page as it was on my form. Thanks Matt. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Line breaks in PHP
I think nl2br() is what you're looking for. RenzE Matt Davis wrote: I have a form that edits the text on a web page by putting the data into a db and then outputting to the webpage when it is called. When I enter my text into my form I use the return key to start new lines, but when the text appears on my webpage it has no line breaks so the text just wraps to the width of the page. Is there any way of PHP picking up these line breaks so that the text will be formatted on my web page as it was on my form. Thanks Matt. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] Line breaks in PHP
check out the nl2br() function. HTML does not recognize the line breaks, it needs BR for that. Sincerely berber Visit http://www.weberdev.com Today!!! To see where PHP might take you tomorrow. -Original Message- From: Matt Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 11:29 AM To: Php Mailing List Subject: [PHP] Line breaks in PHP I have a form that edits the text on a web page by putting the data into a db and then outputting to the webpage when it is called. When I enter my text into my form I use the return key to start new lines, but when the text appears on my webpage it has no line breaks so the text just wraps to the width of the page. Is there any way of PHP picking up these line breaks so that the text will be formatted on my web page as it was on my form. Thanks Matt. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Line breaks in PHP
nl2br (PHP 3, PHP 4 ) nl2br -- Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string Description string nl2br (string string) Returns string with 'br /' inserted before all newlines *** RTM. Sometimes it helps! :-) - Original Message - From: Matt Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Php Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 11:29 AM Subject: [PHP] Line breaks in PHP I have a form that edits the text on a web page by putting the data into a db and then outputting to the webpage when it is called. When I enter my text into my form I use the return key to start new lines, but when the text appears on my webpage it has no line breaks so the text just wraps to the width of the page. Is there any way of PHP picking up these line breaks so that the text will be formatted on my web page as it was on my form. Thanks Matt. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] Line breaks in PHP
When getting the data out of a mySQL table with PHP, use: $TextArea = nl2br($TextField); If you are opening it into a form you shouldn't need any formatting as it will detect the new lines and if using a TEXTAREA the lines will be as you typed them initially. If you want to save BRs when saving the data into the table, use the above but then you won't need it when you pull the data back out. Martin. -Original Message- From: Jason Lotito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 March 2001 20:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Php Mailing List Subject: RE: [PHP] Line breaks in PHP -Original Message- From: Matt Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:29 AM To: Php Mailing List Subject: [PHP] Line breaks in PHP I have a form that edits the text on a web page by putting the data into a db and then outputting to the webpage when it is called. When I enter my text into my form I use the return key to start new lines, but when the text appears on my webpage it has no line breaks so the text just wraps to the width of the page. Is there any way of PHP picking up these line breaks so that the text will be formatted on my web page as it was on my form. Thanks Matt. http://www.php.net/nl2br Check out that function. that is what you need. Jason Lotito www.NewbieNetwork.net Where those who can, teach; and those who can, learn. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
