Question

I created a form in html and use php to send email

<form action="xxxxxx" method="post">
  <textarea rows="15" cols="80" name="texttosend" >
    Here is the list
    1) xxxx
    2) yyyy
    3) zzzz
  </textarea>
  <input type="hidden" name="do"    value="admin" />
  <input type="hidden" name="page"  value="mytext" />
  <input type="submit" class="button" name="sendmail" value="Send" />
</form>

In php, I capture the content of the textarea and send it as html by setting the header of the email as

Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"

However, the email sent out lose all the format (I mean seems all the line return are gone and all line are shown in one line. So I try to wrap the content of textarea within <p> </p> but it doesn’t work again. What’s the right way to send html message in the way as it type in the textarea?

Answer 1

You can use htmentites()

echo htmentites($_POST['texttosend']);