email in html format

adavis

In my change/reset password process, I want to send an email to the user where the user clicks on the link and that activates/resets/changes their password. I have a limited audience with this, so I can make some pretty strong assumptions about platform and how they view their email.

Here's what I want to happen:

the user request a rest or change of their password
My script sends an html email message back to them with link to click on
The user clicks on the link which opens a new window without the address line or other navigation.
The user's password gets reset or changed.
The user sees the change confirmation and either a login form (change) or change password (reset) form.[/list=1]
I've looked at several class scripts for sending html email, but in the case of v-mail can't figure out how it's supposed to work. Documentation is kind of confusing.

I don't need to send any attachments or cc: of bcc: or anything like that. Just html. Any suggestions/advice/comments would be greatly appreciated.

kriek

I've written a simple script to do just this, although it works slightly diffrent. User's enter their email address into a form field, after submission it checks the email address against the database and then resets the user's password with a random value using uniqid() which is then encrypted using md5(). The reset password is then sent to the user's email address stored in the database. This was written because I didn’t want to use the Mcrypt Library for my user’s passwords (two-way encryption) and PHP’s md5() and crypt() are both one-way encryption. So I needed a method that would reset their password automatically. Anyway, if you are interested please email me.

jassh

adavis...

dude.. try this..

<?PHP

$e_mail="your@mail.com";
$title="email title";
$content="<html><head></head>";
$content.="<body>";
$content.="im writting something here..";
$content.="<img src='www.image.com/hi.gif' width='35' height='35' border='0'>";
$content.="</body>";
$content.="</html";
$headers="From:jassh<jassh@mail.com>\r\n";
$headers.="Reply-To:jassh@mail.com\r\n";
$headers.="Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"ISO-8859-1\" \r\n";
$headers.="X-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion();

mail
("$e_mail","$title","$content","$headers");
?>

Something like that,

make sure the image (if you decide to use it)
are in url format...

hope that helps...

adavis

jaash,

That's better. Now I'm getting the link but I get this header info on the front of my email. Anyway to hide it:

X-Mailer: PHP/4.1.1 X-RCPT-TO: Status: U X-UIDL: 344959606 Dear firstname lastname,Click Here to finish activating your new password.

adavis

got it working to my satisfaction. Thanks for the help!!!

$e_mail   = $emailIN;
$title    = "Reset Password for Webpage Admin Access";
$content  = "<html>";
$content .= "<head>";
$content .= "<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript' SRC='window.js'></SCRIPT>";
$content .= "<style type='text/css'>";
$content .= "BODY,P    { font-family: arial,helvetic,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; }";
$content .= "A         { font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #000000; }";
$content .= "A:visited { font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #000000; }";
$content .= "A:hover   { font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; color: #660033; }";
$content .= "</style>";
$content .= "</head>";
$content .= "<body>";
$content .= "<p>Dear ".$nameIN.",</p> ";
$content .= "<p>Your request to change your password has been received.";
$content .= "<br>To login to the admin area, you will need the following information:</p>";
$content .= "<p>Username: ".$userIN."";
$content .= "<br>Password: ".$changepw."</p>";
$content .= "<p>";
$content .= "<a href='http://www.mysite.org/admin/activate.php?id=".$idIN."&code=".$pass."&activate=change' onClick='return adminWindow()'>Click Here</a>";
$content .= " to finish activating your new password.</p>";
$content .= "<p>Thanks!<br>The Webmaster</p>";
$content .= "<p>This is an automated response, please do not reply!</p>";
$content .= "</body>";
$content .= "</html>";
$headers  = "From:webmaster<webmaster@mysite.org>\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To:webmaster@mysite.org\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"ISO-8859-1\" \r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion();
mail("$e_mail","$title","$content","$headers");