sending web pages through email

jhyers

How can I use php mail() function and a form on my webpage to collect an email and then email back the user a working webpage to their email address instead of just ASCII text? Is there a tutorial somewhere about that?

cretaceous

Assuming you can do the html email side of it, just take the form elements submitted via GET or POST and rebuild the form with those values - here's a tiny portion of one I did - its scrappy but it works

I also replaced any graphics from the page with text so its readable offline

at the top of the page get the variables then:


$bit2='<tr>
      <td>Colours</td>
       <td> <p><strong>Please tick the types you require:</strong></p>
    <br><input type="checkbox" ';
      if ($chk1)
        $bit2.= 'checked' ;
      $bit2.='>Red
      <br><input type="checkbox" ';

if ($chk2) 
    $bit2.= 'checked' ;
  $bit2.='>Blue
  <br>';

look at how it goes in and out of php and html if you're not clear on how this works

(that works fine for radio buttons also)

for text fields or select elements just put them into html text with a visual style that mimics the original somewhat

as you maybe can see I put it together at the end with chunks like $entirething=$htmlheaderstuff.$bit1.$dividerbit.$bit2.$dividerbit;

hope that helps

jhyers

hmm... I'm not sure what you mean. What I am trying to do is collect an email and then mail out some html. This will collect email from the form and then mail it out, but it doesn't send it as html. It prints all the tags as well. How do I make it work to send and html page and not the source code as well?

<?php
$message1="";
if ( isset( $actionflag ) && $actionflag=="contact")
{
if ( empty( $form[email] ) ) {
$message1 .="Please enter your email address <br>\n";
}
else if (ereg(".@...*",$form[email])){
$message1 .="";
}
else
{
$message1 .="Incorrect email address format<br>\n";
}
}
if ($message1 == "" )
{
if(isset($form['email'])){
$receiver = "email@yahoo.com";
$email = $form['email'];
$ip = $REMOTE_ADDR;
$browser = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1";
$headers .= "From: ".$email."";
$message =
"You have received an email: $email\n" .
"IP: $ip\n" .
"Browser: $browser";
$html =
"<html><body>hey! it works!
</body></html>";
mail($receiver, "Annuity Quote Request", $message, $email, $html);
header( "location: /thankyou2.php" );
exit;
}
}
?>

ownedman

i just did sumin like this.

<?
//bunch of other crap goes here
$mail = ' Html goes here '
$from = me
$to = you
$subject = sskateboarding
mail($to, $from, $subject $mail) or die(mail failed to send)
// TaDa!
?>

btw sorry i was in a rush lolz u get the idea

cretaceous

well you did ask for a working webpage to be sent - rebuilding the form gives you a working form with the user's entries in place - and you just need to send it as an html email which seeing as you know to use mail() function should be easy

ownedman's or your own code should do it fine

--you have to add the code to define the html page (just like an ordinary html page) at the beginning of the message string like:

$html_head = '<html><style>
body, p, td {
color: #000000;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica,  Verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
}
</style><body bgcolor="#ffffff" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" >';

some email clients may not interpret the style sheet correctly

unless you really need html email a plain text email is less trouble and wont be flagged as spam

I think you'll need to grab the variables one by one rather than the entire form as a single var, which is what your $form['email'] appears to do - I'm not sure how you are putting user entries into $form['email'] ??

jhyers

well, I'm not collecting anything but an email address first. There is only one variable they enter on the form, their email address, and then I want to send them a page with some html on it.

I don't really want to send ASCII text because I want to have pictures for links and such.

Drakla

Go into google and type "php mail richard heyes"