[RESOLVED] HTML Email header trouble

Rodney_H_

I am a newbie so please have patience. I just took an online tutorial on how to send an HTML email using php's mail(); function. It works great. BUT, the problem is in the "FROM:" section of the emails that I send. This is what recipients of my emails see:

FROM: <me@my_domain.comContent-type: text/html>

Do you see how the 'content-type: text/html' is shown as part of my return email address?

Can someone explain to me WHY please? here is my code:

<?php
$message = "<html><head></head><body>";
$message .= "$stuff"; // html message converted to variable for simplicity here
$message .= "</body></html>";
$from = "me@my_domain.com";
$to = "you@your_domain.com";
$subject = "HTML Email";
$headers = "From: $from";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
/* Now we are ready to send the email so we call php's mail() function
With the appropriate variables from above included in the brackets */
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
?>

Lastly, this would be icing on the cake, if you could tell me how I can show not only my email address without the 'Content-type: text/htm' business mucking it up, but also, if I could show my email address and my name.

Thanks!

I appreciate it.

drew010

hey again 🙂

$headers = "From: $from";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";

looks like you forgot the \r\n after the From header..

$headers = "From: $from\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";

and to show your name...

$headers = "From: \"Rodney H.\" <$from>\r\n";

Rodney_H_

Brilliant!

Thanks a million, Drew. I appreciate it.

Now, I am going to try emails with attachments. Oh what fun with PHP. I wish I would have learned this years ago, ten years to be specific!!

:- )

drew010

ah yes attachments, fun indeed. when i was writing some windows apps to handle mail attachments, this article helped me learn the basics of mime: http://perl.about.com/od/internetemailprotocols/l/aa032302a.htm

Rodney_H_

wow! Thanks, Drew!

I really appreciate it. I like about.com and will check it out. The site helped me with the basics of javascript a couple of years ago. And recently I read what they had to say about cookies.
Now I will check this article out, too.

Take, care.

OH! I forgot to tell you that I switched servers from a freebie in the UK (Tipod.Lycos.uk) To spoono host here in the US, so hopefully I can use your RSS fetch script afterall.

Kind regards to the west from the mid-west.

(Sleepy-time-is-now!)