[FX.php List] Sending carriage returns within a string into FM field

[Head Honcho]

Hi Bob,

try

$create->AddDBParam('item_type', nl2br($values) );

Hope this helps, somewhat.

Regards

Michael Ward
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On 03/03/2011, at 7:57 AM, Bob Patin wrote:

> Well, merchandise and taxexempt aren't variables, they're text strings...
> 
> So
> 
> $merchandise = "merchandise";
> $taxexempt = "taxexempt";
> $string = $merchandise."\r\n".$taxexempt;
> 
> is the same as
> 
> $string = "merchandise\r\ntaxexempt";
> 
> ... and he was right! I was pretty sure that I'd used \r\n in the past, and the difference was the double-quotes. 
> 
> I used this: "merchandise\r\ntaxexempt"
> 
> and it worked perfectly.
> 
> Thanks guys,
> 
> Bob Patin
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> 
> On Mar 2, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Anders Monsen wrote:
> 
>> I believe you need to wrap double quotes around a \r
>> 
>> $values = $merchandise . "\r" . $taxexempt;
>> 
>> $create->AddDBParam('item_type', $values );
>> 
> 
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