How to maintain format in html email using the send email....

Question

Does anyone know how to maintain the format in a HTML email using the Send E-mail To Recipients From Recordset behavior?
When text only is selected instead of HTML text on the Options tab the format of the input is maintained, but when HTML text is selected the email has no format. I have tried to use a replace \n with
as I have done when hand coding PHP, BUT I am trying to learn to use ADDT. I also tried to use a Custom trigger without success.
Help!

Answer 1

Hi Dave,
in my snippets folder I have this thing which I found on the old MX Kollection forums and which was suggested by the Interakt staff:
//trigger SendEmail (write content)
function Trigger_SendEmail(&$tNG) {
ob_start();
include("myDynamicContentFile.php");
$mailcontent = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$emailObj = new tNG_Email($tNG);
$emailObj->setTo("[email protected]");
$emailObj->setFrom("[email protected]");
$emailObj->setSubject("A new User was added");
$emailObj->setContent($mailcontent);
$emailObj->setEncoding("UTF-8");
$emailObj->setFormat("text");
$emailObj->setImportance("Low");
return $emailObj->Execute();
//trigger SendEmail (write content)
The only modification is the possibility to include a dynamic PHP file rather than some static text or a HTML file which will also render textarea contents on one line:
ob_start();
include("myDynamicContentFile.php");
$mailcontent = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
That said, it should be possible to define all the "rendering" options in the external PHP file, what would mean to apply the nl2br function there, e.g.: nl2br($row_queryname['columnname'])
What I´m not sue about is, if you will have to strip the external file´s head and body tags before it´s getting included -- however, please give this a try and tell us how it worked.
Cheers,
Günter Schenk
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver