newline not working in PHP mail

email, php

Solution

Try to change your `'` to `"` - php interprets a string inside single quotes as literals, whereas with quotes (`"`) it will expand the `\r\n` to what you want.

More information: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.single

Problem

I'm using the following to send an email: ``` <php .... $message = 'Hi '.$fname.', \r\n Your entries for the week of ' .$weekof.' have been reviewed. \r\n Please login and View Weekly reports to see the report and comments. \r\n Thanks, \r\n'.$myname; mail($to, $subject, $message, $from); ?> ``` When the message is received it does not start a new line at the "\r\n" but just prints them as part of the message. I only tried it in Thunderbird 3, not any other clients.

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