[SOLVED] Email HTML Form

[sam06]

I managed to send an email to everyone in my database using text, but now I'm trying to send HTML.

 

My code is:

while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
// Example 
$HTML         = '<a href='http://getfreefunnies.co.uk/click.php?id=7&username= '.$row['username'].' '><img border=0 src='http://banners.affiliatefuture.com/1068/36042.jpg'></a><p>This is an email sent by <a href="http://www.getfreefunnies.co.uk">Get FreeSweets</a> - Your username is : '.$row['username'].' </p>';
$from         = "samuelhale@btinternet.com";
$to           = $row['email'];
$subject = "Message from Get Free Sweets";
sendHTMLemail($HTML,$from,$to,$subject);
function sendHTMLemail($HTML,$from,$to,$subject)
{
// First we have to build our email headers
// Set out "from" address
    $headers = "From: $from\r\n"; 
// Now we specify our MIME version
    $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 
// Create a boundary so we know where to look for
// the start of the data
    $boundary = uniqid("HTMLEMAIL"); 
    
// First we be nice and send a non-html version of our email
    
    $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;".
                "boundary = $boundary\r\n\r\n"; 
    $headers .= "This is a MIME encoded message.\r\n\r\n"; 
    $headers .= "--$boundary\r\n".
                "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n".
                "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
                
    $headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode(strip_tags($HTML))); 
// Now we attach the HTML version
    $headers .= "--$boundary\r\n".
                "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n".
                "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
                
    $headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode($HTML)); 
// And then send the email ....
    mail($to,$subject,"",$headers);
    
}
} 
?>

It keeps coming up with unexpected T_STRING on the line:

$HTML         = '<a href='http://getfreefunnies.co.uk/click.php?id=7&username= '.$row['username'].' '><img border=0 src='http://banners.affiliatefuture.com/1068/36042.jpg'></a><p>This is an email sent by <a href="http://www.getfreefunnies.co.uk">Get FreeSweets</a> - Your username is : '.$row['username'].' </p>';

 

Cheers,

Sam.

[trq]

$HTML = '<a href=\'http://getfreefunnies.co.uk/click.php?id=7&username= '.$row['username'].'\'><img border=0 src=\'http://banners.affiliatefuture.com/1068/36042.jpg\'></a><p>This is an email sent by <a href="http://www.getfreefunnies.co.uk">Get FreeSweets</a> - Your username is : '.$row['username'].' </p>';

[sam06]

I'm now getting

Fatal error: Call to undefined function sendhtmlemail() in /home/sam06/public_html/email.php on line 19

Which is the line:

 

sendHTMLemail($HTML,$from,$to,$subject);

 

Any ideas?

[sam06]

Sorry to bump- but any ideas anyone?

[Andy17]

Put this

 

sendHTMLemail($HTML,$from,$to,$subject);

 

Below your function instead of above.

[sam06]

Like this:

function sendHTMLemail($HTML,$from,$to,$subject)
sendHTMLemail($HTML,$from,$to,$subject);

{

It comes out with

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting '{' in /home/sam06/public_html/email.php on line 20

But when I do this:

function sendHTMLemail($HTML,$from,$to,$subject)
{
sendHTMLemail($HTML,$from,$to,$subject);

It comes out with

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare sendhtmlemail() (previously declared in /home/sam06/public_html/email.php:19) in /home/sam06/public_html/email.php on line 19

 

Any ideas?

[Andy17]

I didn't mean inside your function. Try to copy the code below:

 

<?php

function sendHTMLemail($HTML,$from,$to,$subject)
{
// First we have to build our email headers
// Set out "from" address
    $headers = "From: $from\r\n";
// Now we specify our MIME version
    $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
// Create a boundary so we know where to look for
// the start of the data
    $boundary = uniqid("HTMLEMAIL");
   
// First we be nice and send a non-html version of our email
   
    $headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;".
                "boundary = $boundary\r\n\r\n";
    $headers .= "This is a MIME encoded message.\r\n\r\n";
    $headers .= "--$boundary\r\n".
                "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n".
                "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n";
               
    $headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode(strip_tags($HTML)));
// Now we attach the HTML version
    $headers .= "--$boundary\r\n".
                "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n".
                "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n";
               
    $headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode($HTML));
// And then send the email ....
    mail($to,$subject,"",$headers);
   
}

while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
// Example
$HTML = '<a href=\'http://getfreefunnies.co.uk/click.php?id=7&username= '.$row['username'].'\'><img border=0 src=\'http://banners.affiliatefuture.com/1068/36042.jpg\'></a><p>This is an email sent by <a href="http://www.getfreefunnies.co.uk">Get FreeSweets</a> - Your username is : '.$row['username'].' </p>';
$from         = "samuelhale@btinternet.com";
$to           = $row['email'];
$subject = "Message from Get Free Sweets";

sendHTMLemail($HTML,$from,$to,$subject);

}
?>

[trq]

Functions do not need to be declared prior to calling them in php (as long as they are in scope), the problem is that your redeclaring the function with each iteration of your loop.

 

You can only have one function called foo() declared within scope at any one time.

[sam06]

Oh I get it now, it defines the function, then carries it out in the loop.

 

That's brilliant, thank you!!!!!!!!

[Andy17]

Functions do not need to be declared prior to calling them in php (as long as they are in scope)

 

Ah, actually I thought of that. I just remember having some problems with it back when I was worse than I am now and I don't remember how I fixed it.