Using PHP to send HTML messages; errors!

slightlyeskew

Hey guys,

I've been looking online for a solution to this but haven't yet found one. I have set up a script to mail an HTML message using SMTP. A message is sent successfully but the HTML is not displayed.
The script:

<?php
require_once "Mail.php";
$from = "xxx";
$to = "xxx";
$subject = "test!";

$message = <<<HTML
<html>
  <body bgcolor="#DCEEFC">
    <center>
        <b>Looool!!! I am reciving HTML email......</b> <br/>
        <font color="red">Dance!</font> <br/>
    </center>
      <br/><br/>*** Now you Can send HTML Email!
  </body>
</html> 
HTML;
$host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$username = "xxx";
$password = "xxx";
$headers=array ('From' => $from, 'To' => $to, 'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array ('host' => $host, 'auth' => true, 'username' => $username,
	'password' => $password));
$mail = $smtp->send($to, $subject, $message);
if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
	echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
	} else {
	echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
	}
?>

When I compile, I get this message:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/share/php/Mail.php on line 123

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/share/php/Mail.php on line 151

Message successfully sent!

And the message I get in my inbox is just the displayed html:

<html>
<body bgcolor="#DCEEFC">
<center>
Looool!!! I am reciving HTML email...... 
Dance! 
</center>
 *** Now you Can send HTML Email!
</body>
</html>

Why won't this display as HTML? I'm using gmail I don't know if that means anything...As always, thanks for any help you can render!

dagon

some where in the parameters of that mail class you will need to tell it to use the html headers, also valid html would help.

slightlyeskew

Thanks for the quick response Dagon. What would the header need to look like? I saw an example that was:

 $headers  = "From: $from\r\n";
    $headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

I still receive the same error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/share/php/Mail.php on line 123

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/share/php/Mail.php on line 151

Message successfully sent!

I changed my HTML to:
<html>
<body>

Looool!!! I am reciving HTML email......
</body>
</html>

The message I get in my email is:
<html>
<body>
Looool!!! I am reciving HTML email...... 
</body>
</html>

Further suggestions would be greatly appreciated

dagon

your mixing up the mail() function with what ever class your using, hopefully it came with documentation. Unless the class was poorly written your probably using it wrong which is why you get those errors.