Add line breaks in mail function php

Question

I'd like to send email using mail function. Want to add line breaks as follows.

$msg = 'aaaaa'.'\r\n'.'bbbbbb'.'\r\n';
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"utf-8\"\r\n";
$to = '[email protected]';
mail($to,'Subject',$msg,$headers);

But not working.

How can I send email as follows.

aaaaa

bbbbbb

Answer 1

New line is "\n", not '\n' (double quotes instead of single-quotes).

$msg = 'aaaaa'."\n".'bbbbbb'."\n";

Explanation is here:

http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.double

If the string is enclosed in double-quotes ("), PHP will interpret more escape sequences for special characters

Answer 2

To add line break you need to add "\n", not '\n'