email HTML code witout parsing

[lobster]

Hello all -

I am sending a form full of info. Along with the form fields I am submitting info about the broker that filled out the form.

The info about the broker is in HTML so that th receiver can copy and paste that into websites for submittal elsewhere.

Problem: How can I receive that code via email (form submission) without the HTML code being parsed? I need the code itself...not what it resolves into.

All code for the broker is in a variable called $brokerinfo

Thanks for any help you can give...

[Hafkas]

On most email clients you can set the client to display messages in plain text only - this would resolve the problem of the html executing in your mail client - or you can view the message source and copy and paste from there.

A more elegant solution would be to have the form post the required info into a db, email a link to the entry and then display the formated html when the receiver clicks on the link in the message 🙂

[lobster]

Figued it out uh duh! Just changed all of the < and > to the alternate version ...the code prints out perfect on my html formatted email.

&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color='#FF0000'&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Call Skip Smith at 555.333.3333
and experience the difference!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img
src='http://www.thedomain.com/images/skip.jpg' width='375' height='275'&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Show up like this:

<p><font color='#FF0000'><b><i>Call Skip Smith at 555.333.3333 and experience the difference!</i></b></font></p><p><img src='http://www.thedomain.com/images/skip.jpg' width='375' height='275'></p>

in the email so I can copy and paste it into form fields.

[Hafkas]

Yes that definately seems to work