How to send HTML mail

qadeer_ahmad

i am trying to sending a mail from my page mail send ok and i receive the mail but the html tag not work in it and simple written in the file. i.e. the mail i receive

These are budget send from the Client Ali Raza

TYPE---------------ID---------------ItemDescription---------------qty Ahi----------H 0000----------SASHIMI AHI #1----------5 Ahi----------H 0120----------ALBACORE----------6 Ahi----------H 0065----------AHI XGF MEDIUM----------7 Ahi----------H 0085----------SASHIMI AHI #2+----------8 Ahi----------H 0060----------MEDIUM AHI #2----------9

the script i am using...
<?
$from="";
$headers="";
$message="";
$email="qadeer@mydomain.com";
$from="qadeer_ahmad@mydomain.com";
$headers = "From: " . $from . "\n" . "Return-Path: " . $from . "\n" . "Reply-To: " . $from . "\n";
$message="These are budget send from the Client" . $_SESSION["name"].
"\n URL :" .$formail;
mail($email,"Submit Budgets",$message,$headers);
?>

since $formail contain the data which above written which i get from a for loop and concetinate it in $formail... the method i use is this ...

$formail="";
$formail="TYPE---------------ID---------------ItemDescription---------------qty ";

for ($i=0; $i<count($ID); $i++){
if ($qty[$i] != 0 or $qty[$i] != NULL or $qty[$i] = "") {
//print $ID[$i]. "ID ";
//print $type[$i]. "type ";
//print $ItemDescription[$i]. "ItemDescription ";
//print $qty[$i]. "qty ";

$formail .= $type[$i] . "----------" . $ID[$i] . "----------" . $ItemDescription[$i] . "----------" . $qty[$i] . " ";

}
}

so i need these value shown clearly for this i have to use html table but it only is not working here.

Please help

harman

There are several classes available for handling HTML mails..read-up:

http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/
http://www.phpguru.org/static/mime.mail.html

cahva

I use this for basic mail function:

function sendmail($from,$to,$subject,$message) {
$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$headers .= "From:".$from."\n";

mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
}

siefkencp

The function created in the previous post is extranious. The headers are what is important from the last post. Also if you are mass mailing conisder looping an array to handle it so that you avoid bulk stoppers.

Chris

-cavah becareful not to overload some one who may just be learning.

qadeer_ahmad

Thanks problem is solved as i am using this script..

<?
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------//
/ recipients /
$to = "qadeer@comsdev.com.pk" . ", " ; // note the comma
//$to .= "kelly@example.com";

/ subject /
$subject = "Birthday Reminders for August";

/ message /
$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!
<table>
<tr>
<th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';

/ To send HTML mail, you can set the Content-type header. /
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

/ additional headers /
$headers .= "To: Qadeer <qadeer@comsdev.com.pk>\r\n";
$headers .= "From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com\r\n";

/ and now mail it /
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

as it working nice and mail send, here

BUT

here i also want to send a php variable value in html table like i am showing only the table <tr> where i want to some change.
as i need $day instead of Day... is it here opton here to insert.
/ message /
$message = '
<tr>
<th>Person</th><th>
$Day
</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
</tr>
';

qadeer_ahmad

Thanks to all problem is solved as littel one change here making string proper make ok ... like this

$message = '
<tr>
<th>Person</th><th>
'.$Day.'
</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
</tr>
';

Anyhow Thanks to all