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    copied!<p>I have a contact form with this code</p> <pre><code>$message = "Telephone Number: $telephone"."\n"."Job Details: $message"."\n"."Number of Pages Required: $pages"."\n"."Clients Budget: $budget"; </code></pre> <p>But I can't make a new line in the email like it should. I don't know what other code I may need. Thank you.</p> <p>atb arran</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php // Clean up the input values foreach($_POST as $key =&gt; $value) { if(ini_get('magic_quotes_gpc')) $_POST[$key] = stripslashes($_POST[$key]); $_POST[$key] = htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($_POST[$key])); } mb_convert_encoding($string, "UTF-8"); //AUTO DETECT AND CONVERT mb_convert_encoding($string, "UTF-8", "latin1"); // Assign the input values to variables for easy reference $name = $_POST["name"]; $email = $_POST["email"]; $telephone = $_POST["telephone"]; $pages = $_POST["pages"]; $budget = $_POST["budget"]; $message = $_POST["message"]; // Test input values for errors $errors = array(); if(strlen($name) &lt; 2) { if(!$name) { $errors[] = "You must enter a name."; } else { $errors[] = "Name must be at least 2 characters."; } } if(!$email) { $errors[] = "You must enter an email."; } else if(!validEmail($email)) { $errors[] = "You must enter a valid email."; } if(strlen($telephone) &lt; 6) { if(!$telephone) { $errors[] = "You must enter a phone number."; } else { $errors[] = "Message must be at least 6 characters. (include area code)"; } } if(strlen($message) &lt; 10) { if(!$message) { $errors[] = "You must enter a message."; } else { $errors[] = "Message must be at least 10 characters."; } } if($errors) { // Output errors and die with a failure message $errortext = ""; foreach($errors as $error) { $errortext .= "&lt;li&gt;".$error."&lt;/li&gt;"; } die("&lt;span class='failure'&gt;The following errors occured:&lt;ul&gt;". $errortext ."&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/span&gt;"); } // Send the email $to = "contact@dorsetdesigns.co.uk"; $subject = "Quote Request: $name"; $message = "Telephone Number: $telephone"."\n"."Job Details: $message"."\n"."Number of Pages Required: $pages"."\n"."Clients Budget: $budget"; $headers = 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'; "Quote Request From: $email"; mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); // Die with a success message die("&lt;span class='success'&gt;Success! Your message has been sent.&lt;/span&gt;"); // A function that checks to see if // an email is valid function validEmail($email) { $isValid = true; $atIndex = strrpos($email, "@"); if (is_bool($atIndex) &amp;&amp; !$atIndex) { $isValid = false; } else { $domain = substr($email, $atIndex+1); $local = substr($email, 0, $atIndex); $localLen = strlen($local); $domainLen = strlen($domain); if ($localLen &lt; 1 || $localLen &gt; 64) { // local part length exceeded $isValid = false; } else if ($domainLen &lt; 1 || $domainLen &gt; 255) { // domain part length exceeded $isValid = false; } else if ($local[0] == '.' || $local[$localLen-1] == '.') { // local part starts or ends with '.' $isValid = false; } else if (preg_match('/\\.\\./', $local)) { // local part has two consecutive dots $isValid = false; } else if (!preg_match('/^[A-Za-z0-9\\-\\.]+$/', $domain)) { // character not valid in domain part $isValid = false; } else if (preg_match('/\\.\\./', $domain)) { // domain part has two consecutive dots $isValid = false; } else if(!preg_match('/^(\\\\.|[A-Za-z0-9!#%&amp;`_=\\/$\'*+?^{}|~.-])+$/', str_replace("\\\\","",$local))) { // character not valid in local part unless // local part is quoted if (!preg_match('/^"(\\\\"|[^"])+"$/', str_replace("\\\\","",$local))) { $isValid = false; } } if ($isValid &amp;&amp; !(checkdnsrr($domain,"MX") || checkdnsrr($domain,"A"))) { // domain not found in DNS $isValid = false; } } return $isValid; } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>and the js</p> <pre><code> $(function() { // Validate the contact form $('#contactform').validate({ // Specify what the errors should look like // when they are dynamically added to the form errorElement: "label", wrapper: "td", errorPlacement: function(error, element) { error.insertBefore( element.parent().parent() ); error.wrap("&lt;tr class='error'&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;"); $("&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;").insertBefore(error); }, // Add requirements to each of the fields rules: { name: { required: true, minlength: 2 }, email: { required: true, email: true }, telephone: { required: true, minlength: 6 }, message: { required: true, minlength: 10 } }, // Specify what error messages to display // when the user does something horrid messages: { name: { required: "Please enter your name.", minlength: jQuery.format("At least {0} characters required.") }, email: { required: "Please enter your email.", email: "Please enter a valid email." }, telephone: { required: "Please enter a phone number.", minlength: jQuery.format("At least {0} characters required.") }, message: { required: "Please enter a message.", minlength: jQuery.format("At least {0} characters required.") } }, // Use Ajax to send everything to quote.php submitHandler: function(form) { $("#send").attr("value", "Sending..."); $(form).ajaxSubmit({ target: "#response", success: function(responseText, statusText, xhr, $form) { $(form).slideUp("fast"); $("#response").html(responseText).hide().slideDown("fast"); } }); return false; } }); }); </code></pre>
 

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