PHP string help mail

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hi need some help with mailing. I'm trying to insert the content of this variable into a string to send as an email also need to add a newline. Also need to change From header to "Procity" and [email protected]

$claim_msg='Hey $claim_username, \n The donator has cancelled your claimed item, but you got your          '    $email_to=$claim_email;
$template=$claim_msg;
$subject= "Claimed item canceled";
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 '.' \r\n';
$headers .= 'From: [email protected]'.' \r\n';
$from='[email protected]';

mail($email_to,$subject,$template,$headers);

Why not use the [actual PHPMailer package you tagged in](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/phpmailer/info)? — Wrikken, Aug 14 '13 at 23:00
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3446216/what-is-the-difference-between-single-quoted-and-double-quoted-strings-in-php — Sammitch, Aug 14 '13 at 23:01

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 14 '13 at 23:07

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You're missing a semi-colon before $email_to which would cause a syntax error.

You're also using single-quotes ' while inserting a php variable printing out Hey $claim_username as opposed to double-quotes " which would print Hey JohnDoe.

answered Aug 14 '13 at 23:07

McAden

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

The semi-colon was missing at the end of the first line in the code below. Plus, I also used concatenates.

Give this a try. There will be a line break between the username and The donator.

Example:

Hey John,
The donator has cancelled your claimed item, but you got your

$claim_msg='Hey ' . $claim_username . ',' . "<br>\n" . 'The donator has cancelled your claimed item, but you got your';
$email_to=$claim_email;
$template=$claim_msg;
$subject= "Claimed item canceled";
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 '.' \r\n';
$headers .= 'From: Procity <[email protected]>' . "\r\n";
$from='[email protected]';

mail($email_to,$subject,$template,$headers);

PHP string help mail

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Example: