PHP Mail Problem

[Canman2005]

Hi all

 

I'm sending out a plain text email in PHP and whenever a £ symbol is used, I get £ instead.

 

I have had a look around online but cannot find any helpful solutions.

 

Any ideas anyone?

 

Thanks

 

Dave

[fanfavorite]

Those characters are the pound sign in utf-8 encoding.  Check your settings.   

[fanfavorite]

A little more info:

 

Should be in the headers like: 

 

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

$header_info .= "Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

$header_info .= "From: Some Email Name <".$email.">";

[Canman2005]

I think it's setup correct, I have

 

$to = ''.$email.'';
$subject = "Code";
$headers = "From: DES <[email protected]>\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: [email protected]\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: [email protected]\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";

$message = '£10';
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

 

Any ideas?

[Canman2005]

Any ideas?

[Canman2005]

Still stuck on this and cannot seem to resolve it, has it got to do with the charset im sending?

[Spasmatron]

Just thought I would add some info to this as it was not previously resolved.

 

The issue is indeed the charset.

 

When creating plain text emails from PHP I also include the following:

 

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

$mimeandcharset .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\r\n";

 

$headers = "From: $from\r\n";

$headers .= $mimeandcharset;

 

I split this out as often I use the some of the same contents to email myself as well as the user, so in this way you can do the following and the ? sign will display as it should without the annoying ? thing before it:

 

// create the mime and charset variable

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

$mimeandcharset .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\r\n"; // notice I have used utf-8 but you can use what ever you need to, but this will of course affect the use of symbols

 

//create the headers for the email to the site owner

$headers = "From: $useremailaddress\r\n";

$headers .= $mimeandcharset;

 

// Send the message to site owner

$owneremail = "[email protected]"

$subject = "The subject line"

$mailtext = "Some text"

 

mail($owneremail, $subject, $mailtext, $headers);

 

// send an email to the website user

$custheaders = "From:$owneremail\r\n";

$custheaders .= $mimeandcharset;

$body = "A whole bunch of customer service type words that could include the $mailtext too";

 

mail ($useremailaddress, "Re: $subject", $body, $custheaders);

 

 

 

Hope this helps

 

[Christian F.]

Please use the

tags around your code, as it helps make both your post and your code a lot easier to read.

[Spasmatron]

Apologies, I am new to this. Here is the amended post:

 

Just thought I would add some info to this as it was not previously resolved.

 

The issue is indeed the charset.

 

When creating plain text emails from PHP I also include the following:

 

$mimeandcharset = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$mimeandcharset .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\r\n";

$headers = "From: $from\r\n";
$headers .= $mimeandcharset;

 

I split this out as often I use the some of the same contents to email myself as well as the user, so in this way you can do the following and the pound sign will display as it should without the annoying symbol thing before it:

 

// create the mime and charset variable
$mimeandcharset .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$mimeandcharset .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\r\n"; // notice I have used utf-8 but you can use what ever you need to, but this will of course affect the use of symbols

//create the headers for the email to the site owner
$headers = "From: $useremailaddress\r\n";
$headers .= $mimeandcharset;

// Send the message to site owner
$owneremail = "[email protected]"
$subject = "The subject line"
$mailtext = "Some text"

mail($owneremail, $subject, $mailtext, $headers);

// send an email to the website user
$custheaders = "From:$owneremail\r\n";
$custheaders .= $mimeandcharset;
$body = "A whole bunch of customer service type words that could include the $mailtext too";

mail ($useremailaddress, "Re: $subject", $body, $custheaders);

 

 

Hope this helps

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