Formatting For Email

[DoctorDigital84]

I am sending out a variable to PHP and emailing an order. Works Great.

The problem is that the variable is a LOOOOONG line of text, and it needs some new lines. The \n works fine in flash to make a new line, and \t for tab, but they just say "\n" in the email. Any suggestions on how to format this? :confused:

[CyanBlue]

Howdy and Welcome... :)

Did you try <BR> then???

[DoctorDigital84]

thanks... not a bad idea. I can't test it right now because I am at home, but I'll give it a shot on monday and let everyone know

[DoctorDigital84]

nope... it just shows many break tags in the email. It is being opened in outlook express by the secretary, and isnt working...

might i have to put any other HTML formatting to make it read it. like a body tag of html tag??

[CyanBlue]

Check this page out and compare the PHP file to see the difference... I think that might solve your problem...

http://tutorials.flashvacuum.com/tutorials/Flash%20&%20PHP%20Integration/Email101/

[mmm..pi..3.14..]

Sound like an email program setting, and not a PHP problem. Are you sure you have the email program set to enable HTML Text emails? Otherwise I think the program treats the entire email as plain text and displays it exactly that way :(

Eric

[DoctorDigital84]

thanks guys, i do believe this is just an outlook express problem and the <br> should work... i guess its not really my problem, it is the secretary's... ok, done with that part of the code :)