Sending html emails

[Anon]

Does anyone know how i could send html in a email that would not be to complex or require a class file. It seems like any script or tutorial on sending mime based email that i have come across is quite large. I would like to know if it is possible to just use base64 encoding to a include html file using something like this below:

$filename = "email.htm";
$fd = fopen ($filename, "r");
$html = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename));
fclose ($fd);

And then mail the contents of "email.htm" as data and not plain text, so it would show up as a webpage in a persons email client such as outlook. I know i have excluded alot here for sending the mail, but i am just focusing on getting the data from a external file (email.htm) and having that be sent as valid html to a email client such as outlook. Please let me know if you have any ideas on how to make this work.
THanks

[Anon]

Hi
I had the same problem, heres the no frills way.

$mail_headers="Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
mail($to,$subj,$msg,$mail_headers);

Nick

[eojlin]

Hi,

you may want to try this:

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$emailTo = "[e-mail]";
$emailFrom = "[e-mail]";
$emailSubject = "Some Test Email";

// add your $html

$emailHeaders = "From: $emailFrom\n";
$emailHeaders .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";

mail($emailTo, $emailSubject, $html, $emailHeaders);

Just make sure you've already taken care of the double quotes or quotes that may conflict with your string assignment... but I guess it's going to be fine with PHP.

btw, i too have some problem regarding sending emails... in case you know how to send emails using BCC. please tell me so.
the BCC header just doesn't work the way it should.
🙂

[eojlin]

btw, i too have some problem regarding sending emails... in case you know how to send emails using BCC. please tell me so.
the BCC header just doesn't work the way it should.
🙂

[Anon]

Thanks guys for all you help, that worked great. Another quick question, I assume if you are going to use images then the images must be at the same level as the page? ie cant send a page with a src=images/picture.gif or src=../images/picture.gif Because i was having trouble sending with images. Anyway here is the code i used that worked below:

$filename = "html1.htm";
$fd = fopen ($filename, "r");
$html = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename));
fclose ($fd);

$to = "someone";

$subject = "test";

$msg = $html;

$mail_headers="Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";

mail($to,$subj,$msg,$mail_headers);

[eojlin]

Hi,

I guess you just have to make your image paths or img src's absolute. have your images online; on the other hand have your emailed HTML's images point to those images online.
that's the only way i know. unless you want to send your HTML's zipped, i mean delivered with the images inside one file and have your recipients extract it.

😉

[Anon]

Thanks i did not think it would be that simple???? works great!