[SOLVED] sending html to a php variable?

ballhogjoni · April 24, 2008

I am trying to send html to a variable using a form. I can't figure this out, can some one lead me in the right direction?

this is the html code I want to send to a single variable:

<center>
  <a href="https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/index.php"><img src="http://solutionspricing.com/blah/4058/bbbbbbbbbbbb_01.jpg" width="621" height="163" alt="" border=0></a>
  <table style="border-collapse:collapse;">
<tr>
	<td>
		<a href="https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/index.php"><img src="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/blah/4058/bbbbbbbbbbbb_02.jpg" width="621" height="163" alt="" border=0></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>
		<a href="https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/index.php"><img src="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/blah/4058/bbbbbbbbbbbb_03.jpg" width="621" height="163" alt="" border=0></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<a href="https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ibus_unsub.php"><img src="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/blah/4058/xxxxxxxxxx.gif" width="354" height="59" border=0></a>
</center>

my code so far:

<?php
//include the database connection variables
include('config.php');
//connecting to the database
mysql_connect($db_server,$db_user,$db_password) or die(mysql_error());
@mysql_select_db($db_name) or die(mysql_error());
//declaring the variables for later use
$fromName = $_POST['fromName'];
$fromEmail = $_POST['fromEmail'];
$textOrHtml = $_POST['textOrHtml'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$offer = $_POST['offer'];
$mess = $_POST['message'];
echo $mess;
$unsub_url = $_POST['unsub_url'];
$mess2 = "If you wish to cut off communication, visit $unsub_url";
$message = $mess.$mess2;
//setting the headers for the mail()
$header = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: text/$textOrHtml\r\n";
$header .= "From: $fromName <$fromEmail>\n";
$header .= "Reply-To: $fromEmail\n";
$header .= "Return-Path: $fromEmail\n";
if ($_POST['submitted']) {
//query to get emails from the database
$query = mysql_query("SELECT email, fname, lname FROM ".$_POST['offer']." WHERE soldProductTo = '0'");
//checking to see if the query brings back any records
if (mysql_num_rows($query) > 0) {
	//using a while loop to extract the records one by one and email each record individually
	while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {
		extract($row);
		mail($email,$subject,$message,$header);
	}
	echo "The email has been sent to " . mysql_num_rows($query) . " records";
}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Bulk mail non buyers</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="" method="POST">
<table>
<tr>
	<td>
	From Name:
	</td>
	<td>
	<input type="text" name="fromName" />
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>
	From Email:
	</td>
	<td>
	<input type="text" name="fromEmail" />
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>
	Text or HTML:
	</td>
	<td>
	<select name="textOrHtml">
		<option value="html">HTML</option>
		<option value="plain">Text</option>
	</select>
		</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>
	Email Subject:
	</td>
	<td>
	<input type="text" name="subject" />
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>
	Message:
	</td>
	<td>
	<textarea name="message" rows="15" cols="60"></textarea>
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>
	Offer:
	</td>
	<td>
	<select name="offer">
		<option value="xxxxxxxxx">xxxxx</option>
		<option value="xxxxxxx">xxxxxxxxx</option>
		<option value="test">test</option>
	</select>
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>
	Unsubscribe Link:
	</td>
	<td>
	<select name="unsub_url">
		<option value="http://xxxxxxxxxxx/ibus_unsub.php">xxxxxxxxxxxxx</option>
		<option value="http://xxxxxxxxxxx/unsub.php?action=unsub&email=$email">xxxxxx</option>
	</select>
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td colspan="2" align="center">
	<input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="submitted"/>
	<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
	</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

April 24, 2008

My understanding of your question is that you want all of that in one variable.

Try this:

$variablename = <<<ENDOFTEXT
<center>
  <a href="https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/index.php"><img src="http://solutionspricing.com/blah/4058/bbbbbbbbbbbb_01.jpg" width="621" height="163" alt="" border=0></a>
  <table style="border-collapse:collapse;">
<tr>
	<td>
		<a href="https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/index.php"><img src="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/blah/4058/bbbbbbbbbbbb_02.jpg" width="621" height="163" alt="" border=0></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>
		<a href="https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/index.php"><img src="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/blah/4058/bbbbbbbbbbbb_03.jpg" width="621" height="163" alt="" border=0></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<a href="https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ibus_unsub.php"><img src="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/blah/4058/xxxxxxxxxx.gif" width="354" height="59" border=0></a>
</center>
ENDOFTEXT;

Hopefully I answered your question.

ballhogjoni · April 24, 2008

the problem is that I enter the html into a textarea and submit the form which should pass the html as a string to a variable on the php page, but for some reason the links and images are being escaped by php or something.

Fadion · April 24, 2008

Not sure at all for what im talking, but have u tried htmlentities()?

jonsjava · April 24, 2008

is this what you are wanting:

<?php
$variable = "<center>
  <a href='https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/index.php'><img src='http://solutionspricing.com/blah/4058/bbbbbbbbbbbb_01.jpg' width='621' height='163' alt='' border=0></a>
  <table style='border-collapse:collapse;'>
<tr>
	<td>
		<a href='https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/index.php'><img src='http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/blah/4058/bbbbbbbbbbbb_02.jpg' width='621' height='163' alt='' border=0></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>
		<a href='https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/index.php'><img src='http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/blah/4058/bbbbbbbbbbbb_03.jpg' width='621' height='163' alt='' border=0></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<a href='https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ibus_unsub.php'><img src='http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/blah/4058/xxxxxxxxxx.gif' width='354' height='59' border=0></a>
</center>";

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