Send HTML page with php

[Anon]

Hi,

I am absolutely new to PHP, but I have some basic knoledge in programming

My intention is to allow visitors of one of my site to send a formatted HTML page incl images to an email address of their choice.

So I have created a simple page @ http://www.gondwanastudio.com/xTest/EmailThisPage.html, where there is a button that triggers the MailPage.php3 script which is on http://www.gondwanastudio.com/Alpha/ (now the script is sending the page but I am still debugging...)

The script should collect the email address in the field "from" and send the HTML page http://www.gondwanastudio.com/xTest/Page.html (with table & image) embedded into the body of the message to the field "to".

My first problem is that the HTML file is not showing "as html" in Eudora 5 for Mac although it's capable of it (I am sending HTML messages from FMP and I can see them as such in Eudora).

Also ideally, I would like not to see the file on the screen, but only grab the html file and send it.

Your help will be very much appreciated here in South Africa... Thanks!

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[yelvington]

Read the page into a variable using fopen/fread or file/implode.

Call the mail() function, passing an additional email header to set the content type to text/html. The content type is what tells the mail viewer how to display the data.

<?
$myfile = implode('',file('foo.html'));

$myheaders = 'From: [e-mail]\nContent-type: text/html\n';
$recipient = '[e-mail]';
$subject = 'This is HTML mail';

mail($recipient, $subject, $myfile, $myheaders);
?>

[Anon]

Dear Steve,

Thanks very much! Very straight forward and it works pefectly.

Just two more things I would like to do.

Actually the image on the HTML page is sent as a live link to its URL. Do you know how I can embed the image together with the page, so that people with dialup access will still see the image in their HTML compatible email client?

The other thing is to be perfectly "clean", I would like the same page to look perfectly neat with non HTML capable email clients. I think it's possible too.

Thanks for your suggestions!

Paul

[yelvington]

Sending multipart mail with embedded images, alternative representations of text, etc., is much more complicated. Your best bet is to look into the code snippets libraries here, at px.sklar.com, and at sourceforge.net to locate prewritten libraries that do the work for you. Basically it involves encoding the images using MIME (base64) encoding and separating the various components of the multipart mail with a unique separator.

[Anon]

I am also tring to do a simalar thing.
I want to send a HTML email, but the HTML is has some veriabels that the user will type in.

I have the following written, but I want the message to br HTML and include the variables, eg to_email.

Any ideas?

Basket

<?php
$from_email;
$from_name;
$to_email;
$to_name;

$today = date(" l, F j, Y");
$subject = "ePost Card from extremeironing.com";
$message = "<B>Basket was here</B>";

/ additional header pieces for errors, From cc's, bcc's, etc /
$headers .= "From: $from_email\n";
$headers .= "X-Sender: $from_email\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP\n"; // mailer
$headers .= "Return-Path: $from_email\n"; // Return path for errors

/ If you want to send html mail, uncomment the following line /
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n"; // Mime type

// is the $from email address in valid format?
if(ereg("([[:alnum:].-]+)(@[[:alnum:].-]+.+)", $from_email))

{
//send mail
mail($to_email, $subject, $message, $headers);

// redirect to sent page
header("Location: ./sent.php");
}
else
{
// redirect to problem page
header("Location: ./problem.php");
}
?>

[Anon]

I also would like to see this developed, as my employeur wants me to TRY and write a script that sends a web_page as mail with page formatting and images included.

I found a class at;
"http://px.sklar.com/code-pretty.html?code_id=233"
but not understanding how to use classes I would be very grateful if someone could explain this for me in plain english and maybe even write a little example.

Thanks a lot

Dev

[Anon]

Hi

In one of my web site, I am using this feature. Look at the bottom of each story page.

http://www.gondwamastudio.com/Expedition

... and let me know if this helps.

[Anon]

I would love to see but it looks as if your site is down 4 the moment, I'll look again a little later on and let you know if the link is working again!!!

thanks 4 your time anyway

[Anon]

Ah Ha!!
finally, I got it and I must congratulate you its a wonderful script but one thing though the page is not exactly like the web, I looked in the source and I noticed that you didn't send the images coded in the page itself.

I would love a copy of your "MailPage.php3" so that I can experiment with it.
Also a friend of mine is going to write an example 4 me and once it is done it will give me great pleasure to send it to you (if u'r interested)

Allez A+

dev