HTML format email

Anon

hello.
how do I send email in format HTML
from form?

Anon

A class for sending mime based email. It can send:
HTML Email
HTML Email with embedded images
HTML Email with attachments
HTML Email with embedded images and attachments
Text email
Text email with attachments

Code available from the good old zend.com archive 🙂

Here you go:

http://www.zend.com/codex.php?id=103&single=1

Enjoy 😉

Anon

dont u have easier code?

Anon

If you want easy, put

Content-type: text/html

in the headers, and send the body as html.

BUT ...

-- you can't attach images
-- you can't accommodate folks who don't have html mail readers

Anon

Something like this?:

<HEAD><TITLE>Internet gold-Ipin</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; CHARSET=iso-8859-8\">
<META content=\"MSHTML 5.50.4207.2601\" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>

It just dont works...

Anon

I tried this on my own, and it worked...oddly enough, I got a warning that there wasn't the correct amount of arguements for mail(), but the email sent just fine.

LOL

Anyway, here is as basic as it gets:

<?php

$email = "mail@addy"; / insert the target email here /
$subject = "Subject"; / subject goes here /
$message= "Message"; / message goes here /

mail ($email, $subject, $message); / mail it out /

Now, you will want to add some error handling, printing out that the mail was sent, and such, but this "should" work as-is.

For the php manual entry on mail() go here:
http://www.zend.com/manual/function.mail.php

You'll want to use some of the header's it lists so it says it's from who you want it to say it's from, and not from something like "Apache Server".

Enjoy 😉

Anon

No. Mail headers and the HEAD portion of an HTML document are completely unrelated.

The PHP mail() function lets you add mail headers, which are specified in Internet RFCs. I think they originally were RFC822 and RFC850, probably superseded half a dozen times by now, but I may be wrong on those numbers. Go to Yahoo, browse your way to Internet documentation, and you should be able to find the standards for Internet mail quite easily.

Here is an example of proper usage of the mail() function to send HTML mail. Note that there is NOT a cr-lf pair at the end of the header argument.

$addr = "steve@yelvington.com";
$body="<h1>This is html mail.</h1><p>Go to <a
href=\"http://www/phpbuilder.com\">phpbuilder.com.</p>";
$subject = "This is an example of html mail.";
$headers = "From: steve@yelvington.com\r\nContent-type: text/html";

mail($addr,$subject,$body,$headers);

echo "Mail sent.";

Anon

what is the -
"\r\"
?

Anon

\r = CR, carriage return
\n = LF, linefeed

The network standard for SMTP mail is CRLF to end a line. PHP's mail() function may be happy with LF alone; I have not tried it. I do know that CRLF works.

Anon

10X.
I'll try it later...

Anon

Hi,

You asked something about mail formatting, if you want to send it in clear text instead of HTML you can just place the body in a variable. I included an example:

		// COnstruct mail to be send
		$Message  = "example.Be - Your Information:\n";
		$Message .= "-------------------------------\n\n";
		$Message .= "Nickname      : $Nickname\n";
		$Message .= "Email (login) : $lostpassEmail\n";
		$Message .= "Password      : $Password\n\n";
		$Message .= "URL: www.example.be";
		// Send the mail
		@mail($lostpassEmail, "Example - Your Requested Password", "$Message", "From: NoReply");
		echo ("succes");

Greetz