PHP new line break in emails

Question

I have the following code:

$message = \"Good news! The item# $item_number on which you placed a bid of \\$ $bid_price is now available for purchase at your b         


        

Answer 1

If you output to html or an html e-mail you will need to use
or
instead of \n.

If it's just a text e-mail: Are you perhaps using ' instead of "? Although then your values would not be inserted either...