[RESOLVED] Sending email

mikawhat

When sending an email i want to include an unsubscribe option at the end of the email contents. Here's the part of the code

$msg2=$msg."<BR>To unsubscribe <a     href=$pt2"."unsub.php?email=$rowdata[em]>Click HERE</a>"; 
mail($rowdata[em],$sub,$msg2,"$mail_type");

when i receive the mail i get the html code exactly as it is:

contents......<BR>To unsubscribe <a     href=$pt2"."unsub.php?email=$rowdata[em]>Click HERE</a>

$pt2 and $rowdata[em] display exactly what they should, but the html code doesn't work. How can i get it to work?

Kudose

Did you specify the content type of the email to be text/html?

mikawhat

Nop. I don't really know how to do that.

bogu

Here u can find out more on how to set additionals headers when sending emails...

http://ro2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

mikawhat

OK. i have resolved that problem. Now there's a new problem though. $msg includes the contents of a text area. Before applying html to the mail it was working fine. However in html mails, linebreaks doesn't work. I get all the paragraphs in one line. Is there a way to fix that?

bogu

Yes, use HTML linebrakes ...

Look into a php manual for nl2br() function ...

mikawhat

OK i 've fixed it. is used the following function

function nl2br_indent($string, $indent = 0)
{
   //remove carriage returns
   $string = str_replace("\r", '', $string);

   //convert indent to whitespaces if it is a integer.
   if (is_int($indent)) {
       //set indent to length of the string
       $indent = str_repeat(' ', (int)$indent);
   }

   //replace newlines with "<br />\n$indent"
   $string = str_replace("\n", "<br />\n".$indent, $string);
   //add  the indent to the first line too
   $string = $indent.$string;

   return $string;
}

and this piece of code to display the message

$msg2= nl2br_indent($msg, 4). "To unsubscribe <a     href=$pt2"."unsub.php?email=$rowdata[em]>Click HERE</a>

THanx for your help people!