HTML in emails?

lazersam

Hi all,
I am sending a html email using the mail() function. I can do this with no problem except.... when my user inputs the html using a form. Then it doesnt work(?)

My form code is this;

<head>
<title>Sender</title>
</head>

<body>

<form method="POST"  action= "process_sender.php"   >

  <p>Email to:</p>
  <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="278" id="table1">
    <tr>
      <td width="44"><input type="radio" value="all_verified" checked name="radio_but"></td>
      <td>All Verified Subscribers</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td width="44"><input type="radio" name="radio_but" value="non_verified"></td>
      <td>Non Verified Subscribers</td>
    </tr>

  </table>

  <p>Subject Line:&nbsp;
  <input type="text" name="subject_line" size = "26" >

  </p>

  <p>Paste Email Here....</p>
  <p><textarea rows="7" name="email_text" cols="32"></textarea></p>
  <p><input type="checkbox" name="email_to_self" value="ON"> Send Test to Self!</p>
  <p><input type="submit" value="Send" name="B1"><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2"></p>
  <p>&nbsp;</p>
</form>

</body>

</html>

The processor mail function code looks like this...

<?php

$success=mail($email, $subject_line, $email_text, $headers);

?>

The problem is that when my user pastes the html, the mail() function errors because of the speech marks (")
This does not happen when I paste the html into the script.

Any ideas?

Lawrence

LordShryku

I think you may just need to [man]addslashes[/man], but if a user is pasting HTML(should never be allowed), you may want to look at using [man]strip_tags[/man] also

lazersam

Hi LordShryku

I have tried addslashes and other things also. Strip_tags didnt work either.

Its a simple case of transfering html that has been passed in a form to be used as the message part of an email. I have been on this for days now!

Lawrence.

lazersam

OK I think I have solved it.

The PHP was adding slashes to the text - I use the function stripeslashes() and it seems to work 🙂

Regards

Lawrence.