Question

I am currently processing a form with text and making an email out of the text.

I am facing two problems:
1) If I just take the text as is, I get \n\r that appear in the email whenever the person uses line breaks.

2) If I use nl2br() function on the input text, I get
strings in my email.

Is there a correct or “best practice” way handling such situations?

Thanks,
Alex

Answer 1

You should add appropriate headers to your email

// To send HTML mail
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

before using nl2br()

// Then mail it
mail($to, $subject, nl2br($message), $headers);