[RESOLVED] HTML emails

OniLink

Hi, I've just got a few questions concerning the use of html in emails.

Firstly, if I'm not mistaken not every email program or email provider supports html emails... so what do you do to get around this? How do you send a html email that can also be read by people who can't html emails.

Secondly, when using the mail function in php. Do you just treat the email body as if it were writing a html page?

Thanks,
~Oni.

Houdini

Send multipart email with text and html. This way you create two messages one that is HTML and one that is just plain text. then send the mail as a multipart/mixed message with a boundry between the two, do a google search for PHP mail() tutorials and you should find some examples to mess around with.

OniLink

Thanks, I've looked on google but can't find a decent example.

Does anyone know of a full example that I could basically copy and replace with my content. It's becoming urgent and I'm desperate :]

OniLink

Can anyone see what is wrong with this:

$EmailBody = '
--==Multipart_Boundary_xc75j85x
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Test plain email.

--==Multipart_Boundary_xc75j85x
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<html>
<body>
Test <b>HTML</b> email
</body>
</html>

--==Multipart_Boundary_xc75j85x--';

$message = $EmailBody;
$subject = "SUBJECT";
$toname = $_POST['fullname'];

mail($POST['email'], $subject, $message,
"To: ".$toname." <".$POST['email'].">\n" .
"From: SENDER <sender@sender.com.au>\n" .
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
"Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary='==Multipart_Boundary_xc75j85x'");

When I send it I receive a blank message