如何格式化电子邮件正文通过PHP脚本发送文本

Question

Hello I have one contact us page, in which i have one textarea for the description, there user will type his/her message. I want that message to be send in mail body as it is with all the formatting in it. I am getting description from php script

$header = "Content-type: text/html\n";
$Description = $_REQUEST["txtDescription"];
mail($To, $Subject, $Description, $header);

I have defined $To, $Subject, $header. Mail is going perfectly. I want message to be displayed in mail body, as user typed in textarea with formatting (like enter)

Answer 1

You can convert your newline characters \\n to <br/> using nl2br() and then send your email in actual HTML format.

$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";

Or better yet, use SwiftMailer or PHPMailer. They're a lot more better than mail() function and I recommend using them for send emails from your PHP script.

Answer 2

Use nl2br() to convert new line characters to <br> tag.

$Description = nl2br($_REQUEST["txtDescription"]);

Additionally you can also do the following to preserve multiple spaces -

$Description = str_replace('  ', '  ', $Description);

Answer 3

For this purpose you should replace textarea with CKeditor

Download from here http://ckeditor.com/download

Installation and configuring details on this link

Ck Editor

Answer 4

If you want to keep formatting, just use plain/text instead of text/html

Or wrap the message inside pre tags:

mail($To, $Subject, "<pre>{$Description}</pre>", $header)

With content type set on text/html the client will try to render it like a browser would do. So same rules as in html will be applied : multiple whitespaces and carriage returns will be treated as one. So you need to use tags that imply (by default) to keep formatting, such as pre tags.

Answer 5

If you okey with using TCPDF then use TCPDF

Try this example

http://www.tcpdf.org/examples/example_001.phps