passing mail $to variable

esbsolu

For some reason, unless I directly plug a specific email in to the $to variable this mail function doesn't work. As you can see from my code below, I am setting $to = $row['Email']. Just so you know if I plug $row['Email'] into the body of the email with a specific email address plugged in to $to, it passes just fine. This has something to do with why I can't use $row['Email'] in $to. THanks!


						$to  = $row['Email'];
						$subject = "Jerrold A. Bierhoff, CPA Engagement Letter";
						$message = '
									<html>
									<head>
									 <title>Jerrold A. Bierhoff, CPA Engagement Letter</title>
									</head>
									<body>
									<p>Dear '.$row['Name'].',<br /><br />'.$row['Email'].'
									As per our conversation, we have submitted to you an engagement letter for your peer review.<br /><br />
									Please <a href="http://www.jbierhoff.com/engagement.php?ID='.$_POST['ID'].'" target="_blank">click here</a> to review and commit to our terms and conditions.
									<br /><br />
									Sincerely,<br />
									Jerrold A. Bierhoff, CPA
									</p>
									</body>
									</html>';

						$headers  = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
						$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
						$headers .= "To: ".$row['Name']."<".$row['Email'].">\r\n";
						$headers .= "From: Jerrold A. Bierhoff, CPA <webserver@jbierhoff.com>\r\n";
						mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) or die;

bubblenut

Are you sure (have you checked) that there is anything in $row['Email']? Try doing a [man]print_r()[/man] on the $row array.

esbsolu

Thanks for your reply.....there is absolutely something in row['Email']. I did the print_r() function and it printed it out. Anything else you can think of?

esbsolu

Thanks for your reply.....there is absolutely something in row['Email']. I did the print_r() function and it printed it out. Anything else you can think of?

dewen

can you post your print_r result here?

Frederick

I see your problem.

If you use single quotes to surround your string of your variable, you can not split your string when placing a variable into the string.
Using single quotes in your strings does make it easier so you do not have to use backslashes in your script, but it is neccessary.

Try:

$message = "<html> 
<head> 
<title>Jerrold A. Bierhoff, CPA Engagement Letter</title> 
</head> 
<body> 
Dear ".$row['Name'].",<br><br>
".$row['Email']." 
As per our conversation, we have submitted to you an engagement letter for your peer review.<br><br> 
Please <a href=\"http://www.jbierhoff.com/engagement.php?ID=".$_POST['ID']."\" target=\"_blank\">click here</a> to review and commit to our terms and conditions. 
<br><br> 
Sincerely,<br> 
A. Bierhoff, CPA 
</body> 
</html>\n";

bubblenut

Originally posted by Frederick
If you use single quotes to surround your string of your variable, you can not split your string when placing a variable into the string.

That's not true. If you're encapsulating your string with single quotes all variables used within the single quotes will be interpretted literally but you can still drop out of the quotes and catenate variables on. Here's a little example code.

$var1="lazy";
$var2="dog";
$var3="quick";

echo 'The $var3 brown fox jumps over the '.$var1.' '.$var2."\n";

Will print

The $var3 brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

The $var3 within the single quotes is interpretted litterally but the two variables at the end of the string are interpretted perfectly, all that is needed is thatyou drop out of the quotes.