Adding variables to html emails with the mail()

rami

here is the code for $header..

$header = "From: \"".addslashes($sender_name)."\" <".$sender_email.">\r\n";
$header .= "Reply-To: ".$sender_email."\r\n";
$header .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$header .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
$header .= "X-Mailer: PHP / ".phpversion()."\r\n";
$header .= "Cc: ".$other_email."\r\n";
$header .= "Bcc: ".$another_email."\r\n";

so now when im sending the email ..

mail("$header")

1) where do i save the content to? the html content of the email?
2) is it possible to jump out of html and have a variable in the email? for example i want the name of the sender in bold red colour in the email sent to me.. how can i do that?

Please help..

Thanks a lot in advance..

bad_goose

The mail function has the following syntax (see the php manual at www.php.net):

bool mail ( string to, string subject, string message [, string additional_headers [, string additional_parameters]])

For example:


//$header = (your code for the header...);

$message="<html>sender name is <b>$sender_name</b>. blah blah rest of message here</html>";

mail("you@yourisp.com", "hello", $message, $header);

That will send a mail to you@yourisp.com with the subject "hello", headers from $header, and the message from $message. (Note that $message includes a php variable).

Hope that answers your questions.

rami

Thanks a lot, i appreciate it.. now i can have my newsletter in HTML 😃

rami

Hmmm.. it doesnt work..

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '>'

it seems it doesnt accept > in when defining the variable..

bad_goose

hmmm.

Try taking all the html tags out of the message string, and then if it works try adding them back in but with the < and > characters escaped with \ before them like "<html>.....<b>..."