Notify Plugin
Adding Line Breaks
Sometimes with emails it is useful to have them sent in a standard format. Let's suppose you would like your email text to be formated like this:
Email message goes at the top.
Sender's email address: email.address@theiremail.invalid
Sent via the Planet Hitop email form Pretty simple idea.
The message itself will get line breaks automatically if the user has used the return key in the textarea but how do we add the bits at the bottom?
Notify doesn't make this particularly obvious, but it can be done.
What we do is create a variable with the message in it, and use
\n to represent a line break. So our message would look like
this, with ${form_message} being the contents of our text
area.
<@set name="message"
value="${form_message}\n\nSender's email address: ${form_email}\nSent via
the Planet Hitop email form">We then use this variable in the @notify.email and mung it so
that the \n is replaced by something that the command will
interpret as a line break. To do this, we replace \n with
&0A. So our @notify.email command will look like
this:
<@notify.email to="myemail@example.com"
from="${form_email}" subject="Email Form Message"
message="${message:replace('\n','%0A'):UNESCAPEURL()}">
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