[SOLVED] Basic Mail() Question

[yuckysocks]

Hi,

 

I'm looking to get this function to work:

 

mail('them@gmail.com', 'A new case study has been posted!', 'Go to <a href="admin.php">the admin page</a> to look it over. It is information regarding $schoolname', 'From: me@gmail.com');

 

The mail gets sent properly, but the link and the variable aren't treated properly. The message is in fact going to gmail, so maybe it has something to do with how they treat html in messages, but at least the variable ought to get filled in, eh?

 

It's a POSTed variable, do I need to call it that? Anyhow, thanks for your always prompt help.

 

Alex

[rondog]

you probably need some headers like:

 

$headers = "From: someone@domain.com\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 ";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 ";
mail("them@gmail.com","A new case study has been posted!","Go to <a href="admin.php">the admin page</a> to look it over. It is information regarding $schoolname",$headers);

[craygo]

if you are using any kind of html in the email then you have to change header to include it

<?php
$to = "them@gmail.com";
$subject = "A new case study has been posted!";
$headers = "From: me@gmail.com\r\n";
// used for html don't change
//leave the next 2 lines alone
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";

$message = "Go to <a href=\"admin.php\">the admin page</a> to look it over. It is information regarding $schoolname";

if(!mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers)){
echo "could not sent E-mail";
} else {
echo "Email sent";
}
?>

 

Ray

 

[yuckysocks]

I implemented Craygo's code. The variable is converted to the proper word, but the second header (Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1) is just displayed, as opposed to being used as a header. This prevents the link from being converted into a proper anchor element. Thoughts?

 

Thanks so much,

 

Alex

[GameYin]

Try using this header instead of those 2

 

 

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";

 

 

 

[yuckysocks]

Unfortunately, the second header is still displayed as text at the start of the email (the text/html char encoding one).

 

Any other ideas? This is not a huge deal, but I want the resulting email to be as useful as possible to the recipient (ie, just click a link instead of copy/paste it in).

 

Thanks again for the help,

 

Alex

[craygo]

depending on where you send it, sometimes you will have problems with the carriage returns.

 

Try just using \n

 

$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\n";

 

Ray

[yuckysocks]

Yes, Yes, 1000 times yes. It's amazing/frustrating/thrilling when just two characters make a script work or not work.

 

Thanks for the continued help and support.

 

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