PHP variable concatenation and text file line breaks

Question

My php variables are like

$boothsizetopges = "CHILDREN'S CLUB MARCH 2013
EHIBITING COLLECTION NAME: $company
BOOTH SIZE: $booth_size
"; 

$companyinfo = "
CONTACT INFORMATION
EXHIBITING COLLECTION NAME: $company
BOOTH NUMBER: $booth
CONTACT: $contact
BOOTH SIZE: $booth_size
CONTACT CELL: $contact_cell
CONTACT EMAIL: $email
STREET ADDRESS: $street
CITY, STATE, ZIP: $city ";

$message = $boothsizetopges . $companyinfo ;

and my code for writing $message to a .txt file is

$myFile = "exfiles/".str_replace(" ","-",$_POST['companyname'])."_".time().".txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = $message;
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

Here my problem is in .txt file output is printing in a single line without line breaks.. But in mails the data is coming fine in each line.

Need help...

Answer 1

Are you opening the text file in Windows? If so you may be encoding unix-style line breaks (\\n) when you need to use Window's style (\\r\\n). As a simple test add to the end of your first code block:

$message = str_replace("\n", "\r\n", $message);

Generally though, you just want to stick with unix-style (IMHO)