Trying to get this to echo the body to for testing, not having it...

patk570

 <?
    function getRandomString($length = 6) {

    $validCharacters = "1234567890";

    $validCharNumber = strlen($validCharacters);

    $result = "";

    for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) {

        $index = mt_rand(0, $validCharNumber - 1);

        $result .= $validCharacters[$index];
}
 return $result;
}
?>

<?
# assign send email (actual email address redacted)
$to = "patrick@omited.com";

# assemble header
$header = "Reply-To: ".$_POST['email']."\nFrom: ".$_POST['email'];

# fix subject
$subject = "Ticket Number";

#url
$url = "www.omited.com/portal/ticket-status.php?ticket_no=";

#ticket number
$ticket = getRandomString();

# assemble body
$body = "Hello,
-----------------------------------------------------

";
$body .= "Ticket Number: <a href="".$url. .$ticket. "\">".$ticket."</a>" "\n";   <-----this is the line that is throwing errors--->
$body .= "Favorite Location: ".$_POST['fav']."\n";

# send mail
mail($to,$subject,$body,$header); 

?>

<? echo $url ?><? echo getRandomString(); ?><br>
<? echo $body ?>

WHat the heck am i doing wrong?
I keep getting Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING on line 41

Weedpacket

You're missing a [font=monospace].[/font] between the [font=monospace]"[/font] and the [font=monospace]"[/font] near the end of that line.

patk570

<?
# assign send email (actual email address redacted)
$to = "patrick@omited.com";

# assemble header
$header = "Reply-To: ".$_POST['email']."\nFrom: ".$_POST['email'];

# fix subject
$subject = "Ticket Number";

#url
$url = "http://www.omited.com/portal/ticket-status.php?ticket_no=";

#ticket number
$ticket = $_POST['ticketnumber'];

# assemble body
$body .= "<html><body>"."\n";
$body .= "Hello ".$_POST['name'].",<br>
<br>
";

$body .= "Check Computer Status: <a href=\"".$url.$ticket."\">".$ticket."</a><br>"."\n";
$body .= "Favorite Location: ".$_POST['fav']."\n";
$body .= "</html></body>"."\n";

# send mail
mail($to,$subject,$body,$header); 

?>

It will not send the email in HTML its just plain test, any idea how to fix this?
THis is how it looks in my email:

<html><body>
Hello Patrick omited,<br>
-----------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>
Check Computer Status: <a href="http://www.omited.com/portal/ticket-status.php?ticket_no=089028">089028</a><br>
Favorite Location: 
</html></body>

bradgrafelman

Add a 'Content-Type' header to your e-mail headers to specify the correct type of the content.