Upload HTML page, and send as an HTML email

F_Danials

Hi,

The following form allows the user to provide a subject for an email, and browse for an file. Upon clicking the "Send Email" button, how do I send the HTML page as an HTML email?

<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form1">
  <label>Subject:</label>
  <input name="subject" type="text" id="subject">
  <br>
  <br>
  <label>HTML Page:</label>
  <input type="file" name="file">
  <br>
  <br>
  <input name="send" type="submit" id="send" value="Send Email">
</form>

cahva

Look at example number 4 in the manual.

To put the html file as a message you would do something like this:

$message = file_get_contents($_FILES['file']['tmp_name']);

Be sure to do proper checks that its a valid html. Also check the subject field for newlines and headers so spammers dont use your script to spread their filth 😉

F_Danials

Cheers for the reply!
How do I add an external CSS file to the HTML email? - Give it an absolute path? (http://www.mysite.co.uk/styles.css

Many Thanks,

F.Danials

bretticus

I suppose that depends on the file that is uploaded. The far-too-obvious-likely-not-what-you-meant answer is reference the style sheet in the html of the file that gets uploaded.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.mysite.co.uk/styles.css" />

If you mean to insert your stylesheet into every html document uploaded, you'd most likely use something like fgets to read each line and insert that line after you find a line ending with "<head>" perhaps.

Or perhaps you load all the file contents still and use a global expression with preg_replace().