using php to email html emails.

[crawlerbasher]

I've been looking all over the internet to find out what I'm doing wrong here.

I've even tried looking at the source code of the email to match that for the template.

 

But no matter what I try, I can't seem to get it the view the email with out it show all the html codes.

This is the same for outlook 2007 and google mail.

 

Below is part of the code for the emailing script.

 

	$title = strip_tags($_POST['Title']);
	$stroy = strip_tags($_POST['Story']);
	$email = strip_tags($_POST['Email']);
	$yourname = strip_tags($_POST['YourName']);
	$youremail = strip_tags($_POST['YourEmail']);
	$from_header = "From: $youremail" . "\r\n" .
    	"Reply-To: $youremail" . "\r\n" .
	"MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n" .		
    	"X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
	"Content-Language: en-gb";
			if (is_numeric ($story))  {
		echo "Please go back and try again";
		} else {
   require("config.php");

$con = mysql_connect($db_server, $db_username, $db_password); // Connects to your database
if (!$con) {
		die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); // error message when failed to connect.
		}
mysql_select_db($db_name) or die(mysql_error());

$query = "SELECT * FROM TaruNews WHERE id = $stroy LIMIT 1";
$result = mysql_query( $query );
$num = mysql_num_rows($result);
$data = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
if( $num > 0 ) {


	$text = $data['Story'];		
	//send mail - $subject & $contents come from surfer input
	mail($email, $title, $text, $from_header);
	  	// redirect back to url visitor came from
	echo "<p><b>Thank you ".$yourname.", The Email as been sent to ".$email."<b></p>";	
mysql_close($con); // close conection after information has been injected in to the mysql	

 

If anyone has any idea on resolving this issue please let me know.

I've tried adding the html headers and footer tags around the $data['Story'] but that dose not work as well.

I can't understand why the html codes are showing up rather than formatting the email it self.

[crawlerbasher]

ok found out what was going wrong, in the email header needed to add this.

 

	"Content-type:text/html; charset=US-ASCII" . "\r\n"

 

blow the MINE type.

 

Blow is what it looks like.

 

   		// Insert you code for processing the form here, e.g emailing the submission, entering it into a database. 
	$title = strip_tags($_POST['Title']);
	$stroy = strip_tags($_POST['Story']);
	$email = strip_tags($_POST['Email']);
	$yourname = strip_tags($_POST['YourName']);
	$youremail = strip_tags($_POST['YourEmail']);
	$from_header = "From: $youremail" . "\r\n" .
    	"Reply-To: $youremail" . "\r\n" .
	"Content-type:text/html; charset=US-ASCII" . "\r\n".
	"MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n" .		
    	"X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion() . "\r\n" .
	"Content-Language: en-gb";