[RESOLVED] sending html emails

steveDD

I want to create a page on my admin area where I can send emails to my members.

I need a box where I can hit from (and put my email address)

I need to have a to box where more than one email address can go,

and then a message box where I can put a html message with links etc.

I have no idea how to do this has anyone got any suggestions or tutorials.

regards

Kudose

Not trying to be mean, but there are lots of them.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=php+tutorial+contact+form&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=php+tutorial+contact+for

steveDD

thats not the problem I am having I can find standard ones but not ones that support multi email sending i.e. to more to:'s and that will send html emails.

hence why I asked.

Steve

Kudose

You can separate them via comma.

You can take your array of to addresses and [man]implode[/man] to need the criteria.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

steveDD

I have this code now which sends the form fine but has a few problems;

1) I want to add a bcc field to this I have a field name bbcaddress in my form but how do I add it to this?

2) The Html is coming out but not displaying the pictures or text colours do I need to change the code below (or does it look ok?) or just maybe change the actual html itself.

<?php
// To email address
$email = " ".$_POST["to"]." ";
$email_name = "Title";

// From email address
$from = "myemail@myemail.com";
$from_name = "Info";

// The message
$subject = " ".$_POST["subject"]." ";
$message = " ".$_POST["message"]."
";
$message_html = "<html>
<body>
".$_POST["message"]."
</p>
</body>
</html>";

$random_hash = md5(date("r", time()));

$mailmessage = "
--PHP-alt-".$random_hash."
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

$message

--PHP-alt-".$random_hash."
Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

$message_html

--PHP-alt-".$random_hash."--
";

// Headers
// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers = "From: ".$from_name." <".$from.">" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$from_name." <".$from.">" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Date: ".date("r") . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\"\r\n";
$headers .= "Message-Id: <".md5(uniqid(microtime()))."@".$_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].">\r\n";

// Send the mail
mail($email, $subject, $mailmessage, $headers);

echo "Email sent.";
?>

Kudose

Searching for bcc on the mail man page, I came across this:
```
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";
```
Try changing your content type to text/html

Hope that helps

steveDD

It will send BCC now but I think the html code is screwing up becuase it keeps putting \ before every " how do I remove this without losing the html element?

<?php
// To email address
$email = " ".$_POST["to"]." ";
$email_name = "New";

// From email address
$from = "infor@mysite.co.uk";
$from_name = "Info";


// The message
$subject = " ".$_POST["subject"]." ";
$message = " ".$_POST["message"]."
";
$message_html = "<html>
<body>
".$_POST["message"]."
</p>
</body>
</html>";

$random_hash = md5(date("r", time()));

$mailmessage = "
--PHP-alt-".$random_hash."
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

$message

--PHP-alt-".$random_hash."
Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

$message_html

--PHP-alt-".$random_hash."--
";

// Headers
// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers = "From: ".$from_name." <".$from.">" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$from_name." <".$from.">" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Bcc: ".$_POST["bccemail"]."" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Date: ".date("r") . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\"\r\n";
$headers .= "Message-Id: <".md5(uniqid(microtime()))."@".$_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].">\r\n";

// Send the mail
mail($email, $subject, $mailmessage, $headers);

echo "Email sent.";
?>

I am getting the following source code on my emails it is putting \ before everything how do I get rid of this? (I know its for the php)

<html>
<body>
<font color=\"#00000\">html test</font><p>
<img src=\"http://www.mysiteco.uk/emails/pic1.jpg\">
</p>
</body>
</html>

Kudose

You're server probably has magic_quotes_gpc on and is trying to sanitize your data for you.

You should validate $POST["message"] and use [man]stripslashes[/man] on it ... or turn off magic_quote_gpc using [man]ini_set[/man] ... either way, you need to validate $POST["message"] before you just send it off as an email.

steveDD

SORTED THANKS... STEVE