Re: [PHP] How do I make tab spaces in a mail?
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, [iso-8859-1] Jan Grafström wrote:
Hi!
I have read several tricks of how to remove white spaces but how to create
them?
I wan´t to build a normal textmail like this:
$message=
productitemspriceamount
book22550
cd-rom 31545;
mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers);
I'm assuming you are getting the rows from a DB. So looping through the result set and
storing each row in $next_row[], you could use the implode() function:
while(exist_more_results){
$next_row=get_next_row();
$next_mesg_line=substr(implode(,$next_row),0,-1).\n;
$mesg.=$next_mesg_line;
}
cheers,
--t.
How do I write to get the tab spaces?
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Regards
Jan Grafström
sweden
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Re: [PHP] How do I make tab spaces in a mail?
At 19.03.2002 21:40, you wrote: Hi! I have read several tricks of how to remove white spaces but how to create them? I wan´t to build a normal textmail like this: $message= productitemspriceamount book22550 cd-rom 31545; take book\t2\t25\t50\n... \t is TAB \n is LF (or CR\LF) depending on hosts os mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers); How do I write to get the tab spaces? -- HTH Oliver -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] How do I make tab spaces in a mail?
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:40:17PM +0100, Jan Grafström wrote: Hi! I have read several tricks of how to remove white spaces but how to create them? productitemspriceamount book22550 cd-rom 31545 I'd avoid using tabs due to them being rendered as different widhts on different machines/programs/etc. sprintf() is the way to go. Here's a quick and dirty example of an approach that prints out your data to the browser. You'll need to tweak it to get the values from the right variable names and to put the string into a variable rather than echoing it, but you get the idea... pre product itemspriceamount ?php $product = 'catnip'; $items = 5; $price = .5; $amount = $items * $price; $padding = 15 - strlen($product); echo $product . sprintf(%$padding.s%6.2f%7.2f, $items, $price, $amount); ? /pre -- PHP scripts that make your job easier http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/code/ SQL Solution | Layout Solution | Form Solution T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] How do I make tab spaces in a mail?
With less preach and more answer Using chr(9) will give you a tab ?php echo 'pre'; echo 'TAB'.chr(9).'TAB'.chr(9).'TAB'; echo '/pre'; ? cheers -Original Message- From: Analysis Solutions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:29 PM To: PHP List Subject: Re: [PHP] How do I make tab spaces in a mail? On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:40:17PM +0100, Jan Grafström wrote: Hi! I have read several tricks of how to remove white spaces but how to create them? productitemspriceamount book22550 cd-rom 31545 I'd avoid using tabs due to them being rendered as different widhts on different machines/programs/etc. sprintf() is the way to go. Here's a quick and dirty example of an approach that prints out your data to the browser. You'll need to tweak it to get the values from the right variable names and to put the string into a variable rather than echoing it, but you get the idea... pre product itemspriceamount ?php $product = 'catnip'; $items = 5; $price = .5; $amount = $items * $price; $padding = 15 - strlen($product); echo $product . sprintf(%$padding.s%6.2f%7.2f, $items, $price, $amount); ? /pre -- PHP scripts that make your job easier http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/code/ SQL Solution | Layout Solution | Form Solution T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y -- 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] How do I make tab spaces in a mail?
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Analysis Solutions wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:40:17PM +0100, Jan Grafström wrote: I have read several tricks of how to remove white spaces but how to create them? productitemspriceamount book22550 cd-rom 31545 I'd avoid using tabs due to them being rendered as different widhts on different machines/programs/etc. sprintf() is the way to go. . . . echo $product . sprintf(%$padding.s%6.2f%7.2f, $items, $price, This (sprintf) is the right answer. The various answers involving \t and chr(9) are not that helpful for two reasons: First of all, they won't let you right-align or decimal-align, which is standard in columns of numbers. Secondly, many mail clients just render tabs as spaces, resulting in a cluttered mess. Of course, some mail clients insist on using proprotionally-spaced fonts for plaintext messages, but even with them, the columns will be roughly similar if not perfectly smooth. Many proportionally-spaced fonts add extra room around the 1 in order to make it as logically wide as the other numbers. If visual aesthetics are very important, send a multipart/mixed message with a text/plain and a text/html component. miguel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
