RE: [PHP] Problem with mail()

Good call, rtrim() seems to have brought back my sanity! -----Original Message----- From: ReDucTor [mailto:sjdtmv@tpg.com.au] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 10:28 AM To: Martín Marqués; mike@raeinternet.com Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Problem with mail() You might want to check if there is a newline at the end, you should do rtrim() when you draw the subject from the db ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martín Marqués" <martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar> To: <mike@raeinternet.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 12:24 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Problem with mail() > On Sáb 29 Sep 2001 10:47, you wrote: > > I am using this simple script: > > > > ?PHP > > global $id, $subject, $news; > > $database="yisny"; > > include ("yisny_db.inc"); > > db_connect ($database); > > print ("$id"); > > $query = "select news_id, summary, news from news where news_id=$id"; > > > > $result = mysql_query ($query) > > or die ("sorry"); > > > > $row = mysql_fetch_array ($result); > > $news =strip_tags(stripslashes($row["news"])); > > $subject= strip_tags(stripslashes($row["summary"])); > > $to = "mike@raeinternet.com"; > > > > mail($to,$subject,$news, "From: yis <yir@raeinternet.com>"); > > print ("<a href=/yisny/whatsnew.php>See Events</a>"); > > ?> > > > > Problem is that the from: header ends up in the body of the message. > > And what from do you get? > > > If I change $subject to "subject" (no variable) and $news to "news", > > headers are fine. > > Could have something to do with quotes? > Example: > mail("martin","a test","this is a > "test"","test") > > which should be: > > mail("martin","a test","this is a > \"test\"","test") > > but this may not be your problem. I need more info. > > > I used to pass the variables between multiple html forms as globals and > > hidden fields and I had no problems until the size of $message became too > > large. When it grew above 7kb or so the subject header would disappear. > > > > At this point I would like to use the above script and have the from: > > header appear as a header and not in the message body. > > > > Running Linux and PHP4.05 > > You should think about upgrading. > > Saludos... :-) > > -- > Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera, > si podés usar PostgreSQL? > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Martín Marqués | mmarques@unl.edu.ar > Programador, Administrador, DBA | Centro de Telematica > Universidad Nacional > del Litoral > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >