Trying to get new line on sms message sent from php script

Question

I've been trying to get a new line generated in my SMS message sent from a PHP script. I've used \r\n, <BR> and some hex codes. No matter what I do the message comes to my phone without line breaks.

$body .= 'City:'.$venue.'\r\n'; //<- doesn't work
$body .= 'State:'.$state.'<br>'; //<- doesn't work

This is my header type...(complete header not included)

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

I use mail to send...

mail($somenumber,$subject,$body,$headers)

Everything works fine in the sense that I receive the message. I hope that I'm missing something, because this is driving me crazy.

Bignoniaceous

'\r\n' or should it be "\r\n"? – Garey

"\r\n" printing __ – Emission

Answer 1

Use: %0a, worked for me in Nokia and Android

Encyclopedic

Answer 2

'\n' will print two characters: \ and n

"\n" will print a line feed character (0x0A)

Algia

made sure code had "\r\n" and not '\r\n' as I had in my example. Still no line. Could be my phone. – Bignoniaceous

Working fine in samsung galaxy grand – Houlihan

Answer 3

for me sometimes %0a works and sometimes \n works depends on the SMS gateway

Meson

worked nice. I think we should use %0a when we send message text using get method – Naxos

"%0a" Worked Foe Me ! – Plumbaginaceous

Answer 4

Try "\n" instead of '\n';

Because in single quotes it take the character as it is.

Example:

echo nl2br('one \n two');//print: one \n two
echo nl2br("one \n two");//print: one <br> two

Actualize

Answer 5

Use \r\n and then encode it using urlencode(). It worked on Android

Plumbism

Answer 6

Had same problem, this works for me.

$text .= chr(10) . 'hello world'; But all other answer didn't when i tested.

Dittman

Answer 7

This worked for me in php,

$message = "Welcome,
some text
Thank you for choosing us.";

Physiognomy

Start with this answer. It's the most simple solution to the question. (move to others if this fails for some reason) – Ali

Answer 8

You have to understand how that message is encoded to be sent. For my situation, using routosms api, I had to disable their api's use of urlencode(using php) on my message string. Then, %0A worked.

Rattigan

Answer 9

You are setting the content type as text/html. Try sending a <br/>. HTML is whitespace-agnostic and uses the break tag to force a new line.

If you don't want the message to be HTML, don't mark it as such.

Celka

Yes, I've tried the <br> and <br/> (<br> disapears but doesn't add a line break and <br/> shows up as > in my message) – Bignoniaceous

@Matt: Try a plain-text email, then. – Celka

I did but still did not get the new line. – Bignoniaceous

Answer 10

Just a little bit of code helps the medicine go down. I forgot an important little piece of code:

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

You need the code above added to your header. HTH.

Bignoniaceous

Answer 11

Use double quotes, single quotes don't recognize new lines

Tarpley

Answer 12

Let the ascii do the work for you. ASCII character 10 is the carriage return. This worked for me on Android.

$body =  'City:' . $city;
$body .= chr(10) . 'State:' . $state;
$body .= chr(10) . 'Zip:' . $zip;

Infanticide

Answer 13

I've been trying to figure out how to fix this and if you are using phpmailer, setting the isHtml(false) fixed my issue and made my <br become a line break on my innerText.

$mail->isHTML(false);

Consult

Answer 14

You can use PHP_EOL for ending a line.

Cliffhanger

Answer 15

Use %0a , I think it will work

Zygoma

Give proper answer. – Mickiemickle

This is exactly the same as the top voted answer. What extra value does this answer provide? – Hathcock

@Hathcock you right but it seems this is newer than the same answer and maybe copied it. – Undertenant