Re: CR \ LFs being represented as ascii characters in output of mail()

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 --------------------------------------------------------- Master CIW Designer http://www.ciwcertified.com Zend Certified Engineer http://www.zend.com http://www.jamesbenson.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------