How to add background image

basil

I am trying to make a simple script to send emails to members of my site and I want to use HTML for the email message I send. I create an email message in HTML and call it "enews.txt" My code works ok and the email gets sent in HTML (fonts, font colors, etc are good) but the background image for my email does not get included. (I use an image file that is in the root directory and use that as my "background" file when I create the email.)

$mail_subject = "My Subject Goes Here";
$to_address = $line;
$headers = "From: [email]Me@myserver.com[/email]\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n"; 
if(!mail("$to_address","$mail_subject", "$mail_content","$headers")) echo "<hr> Mail cannot be send <hr>";

the file "$mail_content" is an HTML file (enews.txt - basically a web page I create using a web editor)., and it all works except that the background image I include when I build the file doesn't get included when the email gets sent.

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong but can't seem to nail it down. Any help would be appreciated.

Basil

LordShryku

And how are you including the background image? Paste that tag here.

basil

Originally posted by LordShryku
And how are you including the background image? Paste that tag here.

Basically, in my HTML file I use:

Basil

LordShryku

Well, how's the client computer supposed to know where that is? You should be using

basil

Originally posted by LordShryku
Well, how's the client computer supposed to know where that is? You should be using

<body background="http://yourwebsite.com/imagesfolder/Unionjack.jpg">

Ok, I'll try that, but the file Unionjack.jpg is in the same directory as the mailscript file and the HTML email file, so it should pick it up just like a web page would, I think.

Basil

LordShryku

Well, the link should point to the file on your server. The image doesn't embed itself in the email, so the email needs to go somewhere to get it. I generally suggest against doing this, because that just makes the email take longer to come up.

basil

Originally posted by LordShryku
Well, the link should point to the file on your server. The image doesn't embed itself in the email, so the email needs to go somewhere to get it. I generally suggest against doing this, because that just makes the email take longer to come up.

I am hoping there is a way to make the image be imbedded so that every email that gets open doesn't have to download the image from my site (I have almost 3000 members).

For example, when I send the same email from my outlook express, the image appears (imbedded somehow). This is basically what I want to do, but I'm beginning thi think it may not be as easy as I had hoped.

Weedpacket

Let's see, here are a couple of threads on the subject

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10215406
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10231475&highlight=image+embedded+HTML+email

Ooh, that first one looks familiar.

LordShryku

I was also going to suggest

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/kartic20000807.php3