[nfinity8]

I am sending a mail through php with mail() like this:

mail("email@desinator.com",
"Subject",
"Here is the mail:".$message
);

And $message is containig the message that I want to send to the destinator(the mail should begin with: "Here is the mail:") and has previsouly been entered via a textarea.

So far almost everything is working. There is just one problem with some characters.

Problem character -> are replaced by ... when arriving as email

‘ -> '
! -> !
$ -> $
“ -> "
< -> &lt;

For example when $message contains:
Hello !
The person gets:
Hello !

If I give $message out with echo; before sending, than the message appreas correctly on screen.

What do I have to do ?
I tried addslashes(); but it doesn't seem to change anything?

Thanks for helping !

[FiRe]

Originally Posted by nfinity8

For example when $message contains:
Hello !
The person gets:
Hello !

um... ok unless im blind I cant see the problem

[nfinity8]

oh, it seems that vBulletin software converted this string to !

I didn't wrote "!" but "&#33 ;" (without the space, I put that now so that I don't get converted by vBulletin)

here are the other examples

‘ -> &#39 ;
! -> &#33 ;
$ -> &#36 ;
“ -> &quot ;
< -> &lt ;

[Test to see if I am right: ! <- this was &#33 ; without the space before ";"]

[FiRe]

if ur trying to send a html email then thats not the right way anyway

[nfinity8]

mail() is php command ... isn't it ?

What is the right command for my task then ?

Can no one help me ?

[FiRe]

ARE YOU TRYING TO SEND AN HTML EMAIL - YES OR NO?

then we can help you

[handry]

May be you should tell us that you already know between char placement in PHP and HTML...

I assume that you know PHP coding style and work..

[nfinity8]

Originally Posted by FiRe

ARE YOU TRYING TO SEND AN HTML EMAIL - YES OR NO?

then we can help you

Oh, you mean if the email-content contains HTML ?
No, the message is just normal text. No HTML in the message to send.

Sorry I just didn't undestand the question correctly.

Thanks !

[FiRe]

so when u put "<" in the message u are actually seeing the chr "&lt;" ??

[nfinity8]

Originally Posted by FiRe

so when u put "<" in the message u are actually seeing the chr "&lt;" ??

Yes, I receive "&lt;" when reading my email.