Challenging question - embedded html for e-mail message

Gary_Kambic

Hello,

I'm trying to send a message to my clients by embedding the html code in a PHP variable. However, when I receive the e-mail it shows the html code and not the results like a typical web page. I've search and searched for a method on how to do this. No luck.

Can anyone give me some direction or explain why this is not working? I'm not sure why this isn't working.

Thanks very much,

Gary

        $clientheader = "From: $agent_email_address\r\n";
        $clientsubject = "Message from $agent_first_name $agent_last_name | Newsletter"; 
        $clientbody = "<html>

<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type=\"text/css\">

</style>
</head>

<body>
<table width=\"760\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">
<tr>
<td width=\"217\"><img src=\"http://www.sample.com/images/sample_logo1.gif\" width=\"190\" height=\"56\"></td>
<td width=\"506\" valign=\"top\"><span class=\"style1\">Welcome to the Newsletter </span></td>
<td width=\"37\"> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
";

        $clientbody = str_replace( "\r","" , $clientbody ); 
        mail($client_email_address_search, $clientsubject, $clientbody, $clientheader); 
		}		 
  }

Weedpacket

You're missing MIME headers (an example of their use is on the PHP manual's page for the mail() function). Or (generally the preferred solution), is to find an existing HTML mail class (there's one linked to in one of the threads listed under "Collected Solutions to Common Problems" stuck to the top of the forum listing; or a Google search should turn one up).

Gary_Kambic

Weedpacket,

Thanks for thinformation, it was very helpful. I now have the HTML e-mail messaging working through PHP.

One odd thing is happening and I'm not sure why. I am getting the following junk displayed after my HTML e-mail message end:

_z}Á__ÃÁyÁ{ÁyÁyÁyÁyyyÁÁyÁÁy}ÁyÁÁyÁyÁyÁyÁ

Not sure why, I don't have any additional code after the last statement.

Here is the header information I'm using in case that's helpful.

Thank you very much,

Gary

//specify MIME version 1.0
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

//unique boundary
$boundary = uniqid("H4HNEWSLETTER");

//tell e-mail client this e-mail contains//alternate versions
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative" .
"; boundary = $boundary\r\n\r\n";

//message to people with clients who don't
//understand MIME
$headers .= "This is a MIME encoded message.\r\n\r\n";

//plain text version of message
$headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" .
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n";
$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("This is the plain text version!"));

//HTML version of message
$headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" .
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" .
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n";
$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("html code follows here

Gary_Kambic

Hello,

The HTML e-mail is now working, however I have now discovered that when searching through my table for clients to e-mail the below script will only mail one time. It won't e-mail more than one client. Is there some setting that needs to be cleared so I can e-mail multiple times within a loop?

Thanks for any help,

Gary

$clientsubject = "Message from $agent_first_name $agent_last_name | Newsletter";

     //add From: header 
     $headers = "From: $agent_email_address\r\n"; 
     $headers .= "Reply-To: $agent_email_address \n";

     //specify MIME version 1.0 
     $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 

     //unique boundary 
     $boundary = uniqid("CLIENT_NEWSLETTER"); 

     //tell e-mail client this e-mail contains//alternate versions 
     $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative" . "; boundary = $boundary\r\n\r\n"; 

     //message to people with clients who don't 
     //understand MIME 
     $headers .= "This is a MIME encoded message.\r\n\r\n"; 

     //plain text version of message 
     $headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
     $headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("This is the plain text version!")); 

     //HTML version of message 
     $headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" . "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
     $headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$newsletter")); 

     //send e-mail 
	 mail($client_email_address_search, $clientsubject, $clientbody, $headers);

Weedpacket

Hard to say, since the posted code is incomplete: somewhere along the way I'm guessing you have a list of addresses, and you're trying to loop through them, setting $client_email_address_search (and maybe others) in turn. The posted code appears in the body of this loop.

Gary_Kambic

Hey,

Sorry about that. Here is the entire portion of the script dealing with the e-mail. I have at least 3 valid e-mails in the table. It only prints one however.

Thanks for the help. Let me know if I can provide any additional information to help you.

thx, Gary

$query="SELECT client_first_name, client_last_name, client_email_address, agent_id FROM clients";
$result=mysql_query($query);
$num=mysql_numrows($result);

$i=0;
$participating_subscribers=0;

while ($i < $num) {
$client_agent_id = mysql_result($result,$i,"agent_id");
if ($client_agent_id == $agent_id) {
$client_first_name = mysql_result($result,$i,"client_first_name");
$client_last_name = mysql_result($result,$i,"client_last_name");
$client_email_address_search = mysql_result($result,$i,"client_email_address");
$result_select=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM client_options WHERE client_email_address = '$client_email_address_search'");
if (!$result_select) {
echo 'SELECT query failed. Debugging information follows:<br>';
mysql_error();
exit();
}

/ ---------- Subscriber Opt-Out | Return to Top of Loop | [ CLIENT_OPTIONS ] Data Base ---------- /
if (mysql_num_rows($result_select)) {
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result_select)) {
$client_email_address = $row["client_email_address"];
$unsubscribe_newsletter = $row["unsubscribe_newsletter"];
}
if ($unsubscribe_newsletter == "active")
++$i;
else {
++$i;
++$participating_subscribers;

/ ------------------------------ Send E-mail to Client ------------------------------ /
$clientsubject = "Message from $agent_first_name $agent_last_name | Newsletter";

        //add From: header 
        $headers = "From: $agent_email_address\r\n"; 
        $headers .= "Reply-To: $agent_email_address \n";

        //specify MIME version 1.0 
        $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 

        //unique boundary 
        $boundary = uniqid("CLIENT_NEWSLETTER"); 

        //tell e-mail client this e-mail contains//alternate versions 
        $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative" . "; boundary = $boundary\r\n\r\n"; 

        //message to people with clients who don't 
        //understand MIME 
        $headers .= "This is a MIME encoded message.\r\n\r\n"; 

        //plain text version of message 
        $headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
        $headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("This is the plain text version!")); 

        //HTML version of message 
        $headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" . "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
        $headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$newsletter")); 

        //send e-mail 
		mail($client_email_address_search, $clientsubject, $clientbody, $headers);
		}		 
  }

/ ---------------- Send Subscriber Message Information | [ CLIENT_OPTIONS ] Table -------------- /
else {
++$i;
++$participating_subscribers;
/ ------------------------------ Send E-mail to Client ------------------------------ /
$clientsubject = "Message from $agent_first_name $agent_last_name | Newsletter";

     //add From: header 
     $headers = "From: $agent_email_address\r\n"; 
     $headers .= "Reply-To: $agent_email_address \n";

     //specify MIME version 1.0 
     $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 

     //unique boundary 
     $boundary = uniqid("CLIENT_NEWSLETTER"); 

     //tell e-mail client this e-mail contains//alternate versions 
     $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative" . "; boundary = $boundary\r\n\r\n"; 

     //message to people with clients who don't 
     //understand MIME 
     $headers .= "This is a MIME encoded message.\r\n\r\n"; 

     //plain text version of message 
     $headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" . "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
     $headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("This is the plain text version!")); 

     //HTML version of message 
     $headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" . "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
     $headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$newsletter")); 

     //send e-mail 
	 mail($client_email_address_search, $clientsubject, $clientbody, $headers);
     }

}
else
++$i;
}