HTML emails are useless for me

darthmahon

Hey,

I want to be able to send HTML emails out to registered users on my web site. But when I send the email using an online form, it doesn't send it in HTML I don't think. I just get text, I don't get any of the flash movies or anything else like that showing?? My code is below but I've been looking at all of the HTML email articles and I've done exactly what they say to do. Any ideas?

<?php

set_time_limit(20000);

$landps 	= array("myurldb", "localhost", "user", "pass");
$database   = $landps[0];
$host       = $landps[1];
$username   = $landps[2];
$password   = $landps[3];
$table    	= 'test';
$Subject    = trim ($Subject);
$Message    = trim ($Message);
$URL        = 'http://www.myurl.net/admin/';

mysql_connect ($host,$username,$password) or die ("Failed login.");
mysql_select_db ($database) or die ("Failed to access db.");

/* recipients */
$to = "Chris<chris@myurl.net>";

/* subject */
$subject = "Hello";

/* message */
$Email = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Test Email</title>
<link href="http://www.myurl.net/oipstyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>

<body bgcolor="FFFAED">
<div align="center">
  <table width="571" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="Normal">
    <tr> 
      <td><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="571" height="88">
          <param name="movie" value="http://www.myurl.net/flash/top.swf">
          <param name="quality" value="high">
          <embed src="http://www.myrul.net/flash/top.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="571" height="88"></embed></object></td>
    </tr>
    <tr> 
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><div align="justify">$Message</div></td>
    </tr>
  </table>

</div>
</body>
</html>
';

/* To send HTML mail, you can set the Content-type header. */
$From = 'Chris <chris@myurl.net>';
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

/* additional headers */
$headers .= "From: $From\r\n";

/* and now mail it */
mail($to, $subject, $Email, $headers);

header("Location: $URL");

?>

PHP-Editors_com

are you sure your email client can except HTML emails ?

darthmahon

I'm using outlook express so yes I am pretty sure.

PHP-Editors_com

OK then, (outlook can be patched or configured not to except HTML, BTW).
here is the mail headers I use, they work fine:

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
		$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

What does the emails look like your getting ?

darthmahon

Looks to me like I'm using the same headers as you.

They are just PLAIN text. It's just shows the $message variable information.

So if I type in "Hello" on the online form, it will only show me the word "Hello" and nothing else.

PHP-Editors_com

So with the script you have shown, you will be getting all the HTML printed as is (and not parsed) in the email you received. Is this right ?

darthmahon

No I don't get any HTML code sent with the email, just the text I put into a form on a web page.

PHP-Editors_com

well if you dont see the HTML, and the HTML is passed by the mail() function, then I would have to say that your email client is parsing the HTML !!!

darthmahon

Right, but I am always receiving HTML emails through Outlook Express...so what gives?