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Aug 15.2007

I’m trying to allow my users to enter a message to be sent in a email– it’s an invitation to join. How can I preserve the lines of the message being entered into an HTML textarea. If someone wanted to say “Hello,” and then hit Enter or Return twice to move the cursor down before beginning their message, how can those spaces be carried over. Is there a way to format the initial text in between the <textarea> and </textarea> tags?

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@amandergeAug 15.2007 — If the e-mail is being sent in HTML format, you can use the nl2br() function.

If the e-mail is not HTML but plain-text, the text that was entered in the form element will be shown in the same way, assuming that the text entered in the form did not crash your code. ?
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@dz_boyauthorAug 15.2007 — How do you distinguish which method of email you'd like to use. Is that server-based?
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@amandergeAug 15.2007 — It is somethign you specify in the 'headers' parameter of the mail() function.

Check out Example #4 from Zend. ?

How do you distinguish which method of email you'd like to use. Is that server-based?[/QUOTE]
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@YelgnidrocAug 15.2007 — I tend to send mime e-mails as some clients cannot read html.
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@amandergeAug 15.2007 — Then the newline character used in the text box should be usable in the mime e-mails - no changes required.

Let me know if it works.
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