send html email help

Space_Cowboy

<?php 
//add From: header 
$headers = "From: newsletter@domain.co.uk\r\n"; 

//specify MIME version 1.0 
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 

//unique boundary 
$boundary = uniqid("HTMLDEMO"); 

//tell e-mail client this e-mail contains//alternate versions 
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative" . 
"; boundary = $boundary\r\n\r\n"; 

//message to people with clients who don't understand MIME 
$headers .= "This is a MIME encoded message.\r\n\r\n"; 

//plain text version of message 
$headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" . 
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . 
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("This is the plain text version!")); 

//HTML version of message 
$headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" . 
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . 
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$sValue")); 

//send message 
mail("$email", "An HTML Message", "", $headers); 
?>

Hello, im using the above code to send out a HTML email from a list of addresses in a mysql database.

The email is being recieved in HTML, things like the bold/strong tags and H1/h2 tags are being picked up, but its stripping all style.

If I send something with a table like this:

<table width="680" border="4" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#257690" bgcolor="#257690">

its being stripped and when recieved its coming out as just

<table>

is it something to do with the wrong MIME headers?

dagon

sounds like a client issue, see if it happens in other email clients.

roscor

mail("$email", "An HTML Message", "", $headers);

you have the message field empty, how do you set message value?.

mail("$email", "An HTML Message", "$message", $headers);

before mail()

$message="<html><body><table width='680' border='4' align='centre' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' bordercolor='#257690' bgcolor='#257690'></body></html>";

with "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" .

the html tags will be picked up and displayed correctly.

if you are using a textarea as opposed to a bulk email

<tr>
          <td>&nbsp;</td>
          <td align="left" valign="top">Message:</td>
          <td height="25" align="left" valign="top" class="text">
         <textarea name="message" rows="10" cols="30" value="$message"></textarea></td></tr>

and before mail() use

$message = nl2br($message);

to include new line breaks http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

Space_Cowboy

//HTML version of message 
$headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" . 
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . 
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$sValue"));

The part (bottom line) which says $sValue is the chunk of HTML which is submitted from a form.

The header part does send this, but as discussed it strips the styleing elements from the html.

Space_Cowboy

also I dont want to post things with line breaks. I want to post HTML, where a line break would be <br/>