Re: html email showing <br> instead of line breaks

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\r\n should be between double quotes: "\r\n"

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Adam Williams
<awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have users enter support tickets into a a <textarea> form and then it
> emails it to me, I'm trying to get the emails to display when they hit enter
> correctly, so i'm changing the \r\n to <br>, but in the email i'm getting,
> its displaying the <br> instead of a line break:  here is the code:
>
> $message = "<html><head><title>new support request
> #".mysqli_insert_id($mysqli)."</title></head><body><p>
> Hello, ".$_SESSION["full_name"]." has created a  new support request.
>  Please log in at <a href=\"http://intra/helpdesk\";>MDAH Helpdesk</a>. The
> problem request is \"";
> $message .= htmlspecialchars(str_replace('\r\n', '<br>',
> $_POST["problem"]));
> $message .= "\" and the best time to contact is
> \"".htmlspecialchars($_POST["contact_time"])."\" </p></body></html>";
>               $headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
>               $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' .
> "\r\n";
>               $headers .= "From:
> ".$_SESSION["full_name"]."<".$_SESSION["username"]."@mdah.state.ms.us>"
> ."\r\n" .
>               "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
>              mail('isstaff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', $subject, $message, $headers);
>
> but the email I get is:
>
> Hello, Karen Redhead has created a new support request. Please log in at
> MDAH Helpdesk <http://intra/helpdesk>. The problem request is "Elaine is out
> today but her computer no longer has Past Perfect from what I can tell. Also
> how does she access her email. The Sea Monkey email icon does not take you
> anywhere.<br>Thanks so much,<br>Karen" and the best time to contact is "1:30
> -5:00"
>
>
> How come the email is being displayed with <br> instead of line breaks?
>
>

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