contact.php formatting help

[pauly78]

Hi, i have a simple contact.php form on my website, but when i get the email with the information its just a list with no formatting at all and its quite difficult to understand. this is my code.

<?php

$to = "[e-mail]" ;

$from = $_REQUEST['Email'] ;

$name = $_REQUEST['Name'] ;

$headers = "From: $from";

$subject = "Online Order";


$fields = array();

/////info/////////////////////////////

$fields{"Size1"} = "Size 1";

$fields{"Size2"} = "Size 2";

$fields{"Size3"} = "Size 3";

//////////Person Details//////////////

$fields{"Name"} = "Name";
$fields{"Email"} = "Email";
$fields{"Phone"} = "Phone";


/////////Misc Message////////////////////////
$fields{"Message"} = "Message";

$body = "You have received the following info online:\n\n"; foreach($fields as $a => $b){ $body .= sprintf("%20s: %s\n",$b,$_REQUEST[$a]); }

$headers2 = "From: [e-mail]";

$subject2 = "Thanks";

$autoreply = "Thanks for contacting us, someone will be in touch with you soon";

$headers2 = "From: [e-mail]";

$subject2 = "Thanks";

$autoreply = "Thanks for contacting us, someone will be in touch with you soon";

$spam = $_REQUEST['spam'] ;

$correct = "";

if ($spam > $correct) {print "The result you entered for 2+2+1 is too high, please go back and try again.";}

else {

if($spam < $correct) {print "The result you entered for 2+2+1 is too low, please go back and try again";}

else {

if($from == '') {print "You have not entered an email, please go back and try again";}

else {

if($name == '') {print "You have not entered a name, please go back and try again";}

else {

$send = mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);

$send2 = mail($from, $subject2, $autoreply, $headers2);

if($send)

{header( "Location: http://www.mysite.co.uk/Thanks.html" );}

else

{print "We encountered an error sending your mail, please notify [e-mail]"; }

}

}

}

}

?>

What i would like is to be able to make the information that is sent to me be formatted, so its more readable. at the moment i get something like this and its always always all centred on the page.

           Size 1: 2 feet
           Size 2: 3 feet
           Size 3: 4 feet
        Name: Mr Johnson
Email: [email][e-mail][/email]
         Phone: [phone]
Message: Hi this is a the message that would come with misc info

What i want is an output more like this...

Size 1: 2 feet
Size 2: 3 feet
Size 3: 4 feet

Name: Mr Johnson
Email: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]

Message: Hi this is a the message that would come with misc info

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[jorgepinho]

Hi pauly78,

You have to send a HTML email.

You can replace this line with the following

$headers = "From: $from" . PHP_EOL;
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html" . PHP_EOL;

And then on each line thast you print you can add HTML tags like in a web page, but you have to leave the foreach loop, to format each field, like this:

$body .= "<strong>" . $_REQUEST['name'] . "<strong>";

Is this what you want to do ?

--
Jorge
Live voice help: letstalkabouthelp.wordpress.com

[pauly78]

I think this is what I need to do, but I would also like to be able to organise all of the information more, like in tables, as the actual contact form i want to use has a lot more info that what I have posted above.

Thanks

[jorgepinho]

Hi,

That is no problem!

Just create any HTML as you like (table, ul, a, etc...), you can test it on a regular HTML/PHP page, view it in a browser, and then use that code for the $body.

Be carefull when using links and images, security features on email clients (even browser-based) can block or hide these.

It is very simple and easy, just try it.

[pauly78]

ive tried changing the code, going off what you told me, but it now looks like this.

2 feet3 feet4 feetMr [e-mail]1234567Hi this is a the message that would come with misc info

it has gone bold however. But the Name: Email: etc has gone.

Would you be able to give me a small example doing it with html tables etc? something i can use to go by.
Im new with PHP, maybe i should have posted in the newbies category :0)

[pauly78]

anyone?

[jorgepinho]

Ok, here is an example...

$body_html = "<table border='1'>";
$body_html .= "<tr>";
$body_html .= "<td>a</td><td>b</td>";
$body_html .= "</tr>";
$body_html .= "<tr>";
$body_html .= "<td>c</td><td>d</td>";
$body_html .= "</tr>";
$body_html .= "</table>";

echo $body_html; // this is for a web page

// or use $body_html on the mail(...) function

You shoud try opening this code on a web browser, and build the email on it first.

[pauly78]

Ok thanks,
I'll give it a go :0)