Sending HTML email using PHP

apparelny

I am having a hard time using the mail() function to send html email. It seems to be having trouble with html tables. It does send the email but truncates after the first row of the table.

The code is given below. I will appreciate any help/suggestions to solve this problem.

<?php
$to="info@apparelny.com";
$subjec="testing php mail function";
$message="<html><head><LINK REL=stylesheet HREF=http://site.apparelny.com/stylesheet1.css TYPE=text/css></head><body><a href=http://apparelny.com><img src=http://site.apparelny.com/banner-links.gif></a><br><br><table width=700 border=1 cellspacing=4><tr bgcolor=aquamarine><td>r1c1</td><td>r1c2</td></tr><tr bgcolor=pink><td><r2c1</td><td><r2c2></td></tr></table></body></html>";

//echo $message;
$headers = 'From: sales@apparelny.com' . "\r\n" .
'Reply-To: info@apparelny.com' . "\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion()."\r\n".
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n" .
"Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" ;

if (mail($to, $subject, "$message", $headers)) {
echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
} else {
echo("<p>Message delivery failed...</p>");
}
?>

Desdinova

Create some whitespace (newlines), it might be that there's a character limit per line.

apparelny

I have tried using even smaller lines; the problem seems to be elsewhere.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Desdinova

OK. In that case, you might want to try using different email clients to see how each of them handles it. Also make sure you check the source, to see if the data is there.

I suggest you reformat your HTML, since it's buggy, which might cause it to render badly. Do not use HTML and BODY, your HTML message should only contain what is directly in the body, not the body itself. The second table row shows <r2c1 (which should be <r2c1 ), your parser might think this is an open HTML element which never closes. Also take a look at the r2c2, which is formatted as an element as well.

apparelny

Thanks. I am rewriting the html code to be sure. Ut seems to be working. I will leave the thread open for a while till I test it fully.

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Thanks again

apparelny

I noticed that my html had single quotes like men's ; although this was enclosed within double quotes ; i.e. "men's", somehow the email client truncates it. Thanks to your help, the problem is solved.

Desdinova

glad to have helped 🙂