Is there a way to strip the html...

[Rick Bowen]

The example I have shown below will probably have it stripped.  I have set up a phpformgenerator form that accepts recipes... updates a database, and sends an email listing the recipe.  Instead of generating an email with say the ingredients in a single column, I get a single block of text with "&nbsp;<br />" between the entries.

Anything I could do to fix this?
Thanks

Rick

Submitted By: XXXX XXXXX
Email Address: XXXXX@XXXXXX.net
Recipe Title: Red Velvet Cake
Recipe Description: The Real Thing!
Category: Cakes, Tortes
Preparation Time:
Serves:
Ingredients: 1/2 cup shortening &nbsp;<br /> 1 1/2 cups sugar &nbsp;<br /> 2 eggs &nbsp;<br /> 1 tsp. vanilla &nbsp;<br /> 1 tsp. butter flavoring &nbsp;<br /> 1 1/2 oz. bottle of red color &nbsp;<br />

[Rick Bowen]

I have set up a phpformgenerator form that accepts recipes... updates a database, and sends an email listing the recipe. Instead of generating an email with, say,  the ingredients in a single column, I get a single block of text with html tags "&nbsp;<br />" between the entries.

Anything I could do to fix this?
Thanks

Rick

Example:

Submitted By: XXXX XXXXX
Email Address: XXXXX@XXXXXX.net
Recipe Title: Red Velvet Cake
Recipe Description: The Real Thing!
Category: Cakes, Tortes
Preparation Time: 
Serves: 
Ingredients: 1/2 cup shortening &nbsp;<br /> 1 1/2 cups sugar &nbsp;<br /> 2 eggs &nbsp;<br /> 1 tsp. vanilla &nbsp;<br /> 1 tsp. butter flavoring &nbsp;<br /> 1 1/2 oz. bottle of red color &nbsp;<br />

[Randy]

Here is how I fixed the problem...

In the process.php file, find this line:
$comments=preg_replace("/(\015\012)|(\015)|(\012)/","&nbsp;<br />", $comments);

Change "&nbsp;<br />" to "\n".

That small change will sufficiently fix the problem of &nbsp;<br /> showing up in your e-mail messages every time there is a carriage return.

This fix will cause problems if you use the data.dat file to store your form entries.

To fix the subsequent problems, find the following in the process.php file:

$make=fopen("admin/data.dat","a");
$to_put="";
$to_put .= date("m.d.Y @H:i"). "|" .$name."|".$phone."|".$email."|".$method."|".$request."|".$comments."
";

I changed it to the following:

$comments2=$comments;
$comments2=preg_replace("/(\n)/","&nbsp;<br />", $comments2);
$comments2=stripslashes($comments2);
$make=fopen("admin/data.dat","a");
$to_put="";
$to_put .= date("m.d.Y @H:i"). "|" .$name."|".$phone."|".$email."|".$method."|".$request."|".$comments2."
";

The changes effectively "undo" the previous fix, so that the comments will write to the data.dat file correctly.

I hope this helps!!!