[RESOLVED] formating of php values in html email

[vinny199]

Hello,

I have been trying to send HTML formated emails with the mail() fuction, read php manual and threads here on the subject.

I got them to work fine except that the php values that are supposed to "print" in the emails either dont or I get an error.

For instance part of my $message =

 <tr>
    <td height="25" valign="top" class="bluetext"><strong>Event</strong></td>
    <td width="349" height="25" valign="top"> $sub_category &gt; $style &gt; $event_name</td>
  </tr>

is supposed to print the values for $sub_category , $style and $event_name in the sent email.

Instead it simply write $sub_category etc. in the email

This works fine in plain text email but not in the HTML fomated one.

I have also tried using the echo tags but no luck.

What format should those variables be written?

Many thanks,

Vinny

[leatherback]

Well.. The code you post cannot be done in a <?php ?> part of your code; you would be getting errors left and right on the quotes.. Make sure it is in a php-section of the code, and format like this:

$message = "
<tr>
    <td height=\"25\" valign="\top\" class=\"bluetext\"><strong>Event</strong></td>
    <td width=\"349\" height=\"25\" valign=\"top\"> ".$sub_category." &gt; ".$style." &gt; ".$event_name."</td>
  </tr>";

[vinny199]

Thanks!