Spacing between email sent with php

PHP
1

This will be a very simple questionfor the experts Im new to php but I have a form and its sending fine but I need to put a space in btween each line Im presuming the spacing will go between each of the lines below

$body.='Wedding Date: '.$date."\
";
$body.='Time Of Service: '.$time."\
";
$body.='Brides Name: '.$bname."\
";
$body.='Brides Phone: '.$bphone."\
";
$body.='Grooms Name: '.$gname."\
";

Thanks

2

If by ‘space’ you mean a blank line between lines in your email, then use two new line characters "
" instead of one, like so:


$body.='Wedding Date: '.$date."\
\
";
3

Thats brilliant exactly wht I meant - thanks very much for taking the time to help - one more thing is it easy to print out something like

underneath certain things to separate the form into sections so to speak?

Thanks
Rob

4

Yes, you can just do something like:


$body .= 'Wedding Date' . "\
";
$body .= '-------------' . "\
";
$body .= $date . "\
\
";

If you have many fields to format in this way I’d put the code into a function so you don’t have to change multiple lines if you want to change the format of the email, such as:


function formatEmailField($field, $value) {
   return $field . "\
"
          . '-------------' . "\
"
          . $value . "\
\
";
}
5

If you want the line to be always exactly as long as the text it’s under you can use:


function formatEmailField($field, $value)
{ 
   return $field."\
" 
          . str_repeat('-', strlen($field))."\
"  
          . $value."\
\
"; 
}