assigning string and code to a variable

brockie99

i am trying to do something very simple, like adding strings of words and parts of code to a variable to display in an email when called.
I am trying to create a welcome to the user when they are emailed their password that they forgot, (eg 'Hello Joe, here is your password: bloggs'), but i cannot get the correct format in the variable. here is the code i have written already:

$message = ("Hello " . $myrow['first_name'] ", here is your password: " . $myrow['password']);

I also want to add html code to the variable, for example paragraph tags to format the text. How do i do this?? and what am i doing wrong.
Thanks

lohmk

i think you missed out a "." after the $myrow['first_name']

brockie99

i dont understand, what does that mean?? that i have to enter a full-stop, or speech marks with a full stop?? after the $myrow['first_name']

ZibingsCoder

Why don't you try doing things this way instead..

$message = "Hello {$myrow['first_name']}, here is your password: {$myrow['password']}";

And if you want to add HTML to the variables, you can always do something like this after your mysql_fetch_row() call (I believe that's what you're using from other code on this board...)

$myrow['password'] = "<some><html>{$myrow['password']}</html></some>";

Hope this helps.

brockie99

yes that works better, but i would like to add html formatting to the whole string to format the email to the user.

$message = "<p>Hello {$myrow['first_name']}</p><p>Here is your password: {$myrow['password']}</p>";

When i tried the line above it came up with the following in the email:

<p>Hello Joe</p><p>Here is your password: bloggs</p>

Is this something to do with the MIME function of emails??