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Since: Dec 02, 2008
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:19 am
Post subject: Unintended line breaks in text being emailed.
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I've this problem where I need to put a list of form text field
results into a single line (for a pipe-separated text file), and
emailed to me...but when I get the e-mail, the single line is broken
into three lines with some duplicate info at the start of each line.
The line breaks happen where there's a space in the text...but not
every space creates a line break.
For example:
154|Wal-Mart |12345|3/8/2009|3/8/2009|1:00 PM|3:00 PM|2100 N. Main
St.||Springfield|XZ|12345|Mike Smith|123-555-1234|mike@foo.com|538 -
Old Mill Trails|1
ends up looking like this in the email:
154|Wal-Mart |12345|3/8/2009|3/8/2009|1:00 PM|3:00 PM|2100 N.
154|Main St.||Springfield|XZ|12345|Mike
154|Smith|123-555-1234|mike@foo.com|538 - Old Mill Trails|1
See, duplicate "154|" get stuck at the beginning of each new line.
The PHP side is:
[...]
Add code:\n
154|$locname|".$_POST['frm_troop']."|".$start_date."|".$end_date."|".
$start_time."|".$end_time."|$locadd1|".$_POST['frm_loc_add2']."|".
$_POST['frm_loc_city']."|".$_POST['frm_loc_state']."|".$_POST
['frm_loc_zip']."|".$_POST['frm_name']."|".$_POST
['frm_contactphone']."|".$_POST['frm_email']."|".$_POST['frm_su']."|1
\n\n";
(There's a mix of inline strings, breaks with strings, and _POSTs
because I've been trying different things to fix it, and all methods
produce the same result.)
Any ideas? I'd appreciate it!
Thanks,
Liam |
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Since: Jan 15, 2008
Posts: 49
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:29 pm
Post subject: Re: Unintended line breaks in text being emailed. [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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"Mechphisto" wrote in message
> I've this problem where I need to put a list of form text field
> results into a single line (for a pipe-separated text file), and
> emailed to me...but when I get the e-mail, the single line is broken
> into three lines with some duplicate info at the start of each line.
> The line breaks happen where there's a space in the text...but not
> every space creates a line break.
>
> For example:
> 154|Wal-Mart |12345|3/8/2009|3/8/2009|1:00 PM|3:00 PM|2100 N. Main
> St.||Springfield|XZ|12345|Mike Smith|123-555-1234|mike@foo.com|538 -
> Old Mill Trails|1
>
> ends up looking like this in the email:
>
> 154|Wal-Mart |12345|3/8/2009|3/8/2009|1:00 PM|3:00 PM|2100 N.
> 154|Main St.||Springfield|XZ|12345|Mike
> 154|Smith|123-555-1234|mike@foo.com|538 - Old Mill Trails|1
>
> See, duplicate "154|" get stuck at the beginning of each new line.
>
> The PHP side is:
> [...]
> Add code:\n
> 154|$locname|".$_POST['frm_troop']."|".$start_date."|".$end_date."|".
> $start_time."|".$end_time."|$locadd1|".$_POST['frm_loc_add2']."|".
> $_POST['frm_loc_city']."|".$_POST['frm_loc_state']."|".$_POST
> ['frm_loc_zip']."|".$_POST['frm_name']."|".$_POST
> ['frm_contactphone']."|".$_POST['frm_email']."|".$_POST['frm_su']."|1
> \n\n";
>
> (There's a mix of inline strings, breaks with strings, and _POSTs
> because I've been trying different things to fix it, and all methods
> produce the same result.)
>
> Any ideas? I'd appreciate it!
> Thanks,
> Liam
Hi,
there is a maximum line length for emails.
Try a transfer encoding, or send as attachment.
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Since: Dec 02, 2008
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:12 am
Post subject: Re: Unintended line breaks in text being emailed. [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On Mar 3, 2:17 am, "Álvaro G. Vicario"
wrote:
> Mechphisto escribió:
>
> > I've this problem where I need to put a list of form text field
> > results into a single line (for a pipe-separated text file), and
> > emailed to me...but when I get the e-mail, the single line is broken
> > into three lines with some duplicate info at the start of each line.
> > The line breaks happen where there's a space in the text...but not
> > every space creates a line break.
>
> Most e-mail clients wrap long lines when *displaying* them on screen,
> make sure that's not the only issue.
>
> Whatever, the SMTP specs specify a maximum line length so plain text
> mail parts are likely to be wrapped. You have to use base64 or a similar
> encoding with the appropriate headers, e.g.:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> Content-transfer-encoding: base64
>
> See:
>
> http://es.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-encode.php
>
Ah! That makes sense.
I tried the base64, and yeah, it encodes the text into human
unreadable code. I m sure if I wrote a script where I plugged it in to
decode64 I could read the e-mail. But that seems like a hassle.
I guess what I'll do is just break the line up into multiple lines in
the e-mail, then when I receive them, I'll just copy-n-paste each
segment into one line. It's a tiny hassle, but better than dealing
with the way it was munging up before.
Thanks for replying!
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Since: Apr 11, 2008
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:17 am
Post subject: Re: Unintended line breaks in text being emailed. [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Mechphisto escribió:
> I've this problem where I need to put a list of form text field
> results into a single line (for a pipe-separated text file), and
> emailed to me...but when I get the e-mail, the single line is broken
> into three lines with some duplicate info at the start of each line.
> The line breaks happen where there's a space in the text...but not
> every space creates a line break.
Most e-mail clients wrap long lines when *displaying* them on screen,
make sure that's not the only issue.
Whatever, the SMTP specs specify a maximum line length so plain text
mail parts are likely to be wrapped. You have to use base64 or a similar
encoding with the appropriate headers, e.g.:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-transfer-encoding: base64
See:
http://es.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-encode.php
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