HTML Email ?

amycrystal123

Hi Guys,
I have been working on PHP for quite sometime. For now, I send my newsletters and any events (for the registered users in my website) as an email text message. But, I'd like to send emails in the form of a HTML as I can be more creative with it (with colors and fonts).

I did read some articles that explain how to do that and the use of headers etc. But, unfortunately, I could not get nothing to work. For example: this code works -

<?php
//WORKS !!!

//$header = 'Content-Type: text/html';
//mail(fromMeOnly@mail.com, 'HTML test' , '<b>This is HTML</b>', $header);
?>

But this does not - !? The email is sent as a text message along with the header information???
<?PHP
//Does not work code
$to = "toMeOnly@email.com";
$subject = "My HTML email test.";
$headers = "From: fromMeOnly@mail.com\n";
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html";

$message = "<h1>Hi Guys!</h1>";

if ( mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) )
echo "The email has been sent!";
else
echo "The email has failed!";

Can you please tell me where I am wrong? If you can, can you give me some working examples that I could try.

Thank You !
Amy.

tuf-web_co_uk

you missed a '.' before an equal sign for your headers variable

<?PHP 
//Does not work code 
$to = "toMeOnly@email.com"; 
$subject = "My HTML email test."; 
$headers = "From: [email]fromMeOnly@mail.com[/email]\n"; 
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html"; 

$message = "<h1>Hi Guys!</h1>"; 

if ( mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) ) 
echo "The email has been sent!"; 
else 
echo "The email has failed!"; 

?>

however if that doesnt work try this

<?PHP 
//Does not work code 
$to = "toMeOnly@email.com"; 
$subject = "My HTML email test.";
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"; 
$headers .= "From: [email]fromMeOnly@mail.com[/email]\n"; 

$message = "<h1>Hi Guys!</h1>"; 

if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {
    echo "The email has been sent!";
} 
else {
    echo "The email has failed!"; 
}

?>

amycrystal123

Hi,
Firstly, Thanks for your reply.. I had tried your code.. The email is sent but not as expected. I still do not get a HTML email. I get the headers including the text content in the text form.

Should I check for something? Pls help.

Thank you.
Amy.

tuf-web_co_uk

try this

<?PHP  

//Does not work code 
$to = "toMeOnly@email.com";  

$subject = "My HTML email test."; 
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";  

$headers .= "From: [email]fromMeOnly@mail.com[/email]\r\n";  // i added a '\r' here, that might be the problem

$message = "<html><body><h1>Hi Guys!</h1></body></html>";  // also added tags here

if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) { 
    echo "The email has been sent!"; 
}  

else { 
    echo "The email has failed!";  

} 

?>

amycrystal123

Hi,
Thanks a ton for your reply again! Unfortunately, however, even this did not work as before.. Could not see where it is wrong too.

This is the content I got in my email (My from address in the message link is empty - infact, I typed my own valid email address as a from address in my php code).

This is the content of my email -
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
From: fromAddress@emailOnly.com
Message-Id: <message id was here>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:24:52 -0700 (PDT)

What should I do???
Thanks a lot for your help again.
Amy.

tuf-web_co_uk

<?PHP

//Does not work code
$to = "toMeOnly@email.com";

$subject = "My HTML email test.";

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

$headers .= "From: FromMeOnly <fromMeOnly@mail.com>\r\n";

$message = "<html><body><h1>Hi Guys!</h1></body></html>";

if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)) {

echo "The email has been sent!";

}

else {

echo "The email has failed!";

}

i changed the from header so that u have your name <thenemailaddress>

amycrystal123

Thank you again! But, it is the same problem as before and I get the same kind of text output.. wondering what would be the problem. As per my first post, the code in the working example works.. but do not understand why this does'nt work..

Thanks..
Amy.

tuf-web_co_uk

its your server, or you mail client

either your serverwont allow html mail to be sent or your mail client wont accept html email

so if its your server try and get in touch with your host
or try configuring your mail client

amycrystal123

Oh Ok. I will try that. But, how come this code works as I have sent in the first post?

Th<?php
//WORKS !!!

//$header = 'Content-Type: text/html';
//mail(fromMeOnly@mail.com, 'HTML test' , '<b>This is HTML</b>', $header);
?>
<?php
//WORKS !!!

//$header = 'Content-Type: text/html';
//mail(fromMeOnly@mail.com, 'HTML test' , '<b>This is HTML</b>', $header);
?>

Anyway, will check with my server and see whats happening.
Thank you,
Amy.

jlive

amy, tuf,
from this thread I see I had a similar problem
After maaaany tentatives, I found this:

a) the problem starts when you use many 'headers', so it's a matter of order in the header-list

b) any 'from', 'cc', 'bcc' ... header must be put before the 'content-type' header, else they are not interpreted

c) the MIME header is not working (dont know why) so I dont use it (!!!!)

d) the X-Mailer header (in the form the phpbuilder.org PHP Manul suggests) makes the 'content-type' header not working, so I dont use it (!!!)

Then that's the final working result:

$headers="From: FromMeOnly <fromMeOnly@mail.com>\r\n".
         "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

Btw, I have some new problems in the mail, when delivered:
1) the date is 'none'
2) the following string

Message-Id: <.......> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 01:30:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Processed: ......... X-MDRcpt-To: .......... X-Rcpt-To: ........ X-MDRemoteIP: ........... X-Return-Path: ........... X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: ............ X-MDAV-Processed: ............

is put on top of the mail body

So, any ideas about these two issues ?

K-man2

jlive!

try replacing \r\n in your headers with only \n
in other words: delete \r

this worked for me when i had a very similar problem

some servers do not like \r for some reason...

TruckStuff

Did you try http://www.phpguru.org/static/mime.mail.html ?