mail html and form data elements

jenreb1

I am about as new as they come to this !! 🙂

Here is my issue - I have a form built that sends over 2 data elements (just to get this working)... I have it going to HTML format in the email just fine - my problem is -

My data elements are not coming over within the HTML format - since it doesn't understand what $name means - it takes it literally ----- HOW can I query through my data elements and show them in the email bolded, underlinded - however I want ?

if I don't use html - I get my values using this code:

$message .= "${key}:\r\n${value}\r\n\r\n";
(key is the name of the field in the array and value is what was entered in that field on the form)

BUT if I use this code below I get HTML output - BUT no values:

$message = '
<html>
<body>
<p><b>Dog Submission Form</b></p>
<table>
<tr>
<td> <b>${key} :</b></td><td>${value}</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';

help !!

zingbats

Make the form post to a php file which contains an edited version of this:

/* recipients */
$to  = "Mary <mary@example.com>" . ", " . ", " ; // note the comma
$to .= "Kelly <kelly@example.com>";
$to .="whatever <what@example.com";

/* subject */
$subject = "your title";

/* message */
$message = '
<html>
<head>
 <title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
<table>
 <tr>
  <th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
 </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';

/* To send HTML mail, you can set the Content-type header. */
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

/* additional headers */
$headers .= "From: your name <youremail@example.com>\r\n";
/* below is optional */
$headers .= "Cc: [email]birthdayarchive@example.com[/email]\r\n";
$headers .= "Bcc: [email]birthdaycheck@example.com[/email]\r\n";


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

(taken from http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php)

You could call a form name "send_addy" then put it as the send address:

AND put another form called "send_name and put that in as well

$to  = "$send_name <$send_addy>" . ", " ;