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Hello.  I am trying to install an HTML email script.  I have found this same coding in two places including Zend Codex.  I get White space on both of them.  Can somebody tell me why?  Am I suppose to call this script to someplace else or something?  Thanks to all that try to help me!

[code]

<?php
    $to = "johndoe@fakedomain.com";
    $from = "janedoe@anotherfakedomain.com";
    $subject = "This is a test email";
    $message = <<<EOF
<html>
  <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
    <p align="center">
        <b>Hello World!</b>
    </p>
  </body>
</html>
EOF;

    $headers  = "From: $from\r\n";
    $headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";

    $success = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
    if ($success)
        echo "The email to $to from $from was successfully sent";
    else
        echo "An error occurred when sending the email to $to from $from";
?>

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ie) when I call this page www.mysite.com/thispage.php  I get only white space.  I believe I should be getting some sort of text box to put my HTML email in.  Thanks again... Greg
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No, you shouldn't be getting a form, you should be getting one of two messages...

1. The email to johndoe@fakedomain.com from janedoe@anotherfakedomain.com was successfully sent

or

2. An error occurred when sending the email to johndoe@fakedomain.com from janedoe@anotherfakedomain.com

Regards
Rich
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Me too, but I had to tidy up the if statement too...

[code]
<?php
    $to = "myemail@hotmail.co.uk";
    $from = "janedoe@anotherfakedomain.com";
    $subject = "This is a test email";
    $message = <<<EOF
<html>
  <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
    <p align="center">
        <b>Hello World!</b>
    </p>
  </body>
</html>
EOF;

    $headers  = "From: $from\r\n";
    $headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";

    $success = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
    if ($success) {
        echo "The email to $to from $from was successfully sent";
    }
    else {
        echo "An error occurred when sending the email to $to from $from";
    }
?>
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Regards
Rich
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It is a so called heredoc statement. I'll quote from the PHP documentation:
[quote]Another way to delimit strings is by using heredoc syntax ("<<<"). One should provide an identifier after <<<, then the string, and then the same identifier to close the quotation.

The closing identifier must begin in the first column of the line. Also, the identifier used must follow the same naming rules as any other label in PHP: it must contain only alphanumeric characters and underscores, and must start with a non-digit character or underscore.
[/quote]
See [url=http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php]http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php[/url]
for more detailed info.

Ronald   8)
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[quote author=HuggieBear link=topic=107573.msg431788#msg431788 date=1157920372]
I got a parse error when I ran it.  I corrected the spaces after <<<EOF and EOF at the same time I fixed the IF statement, so I didn't know which had fixed it.  I didn't realise you didn't need the curley braces when coding an IF statement.

Learn something new everyday.

Rich
[/quote]
Huggybear : you don't need to enclose the IF or ELSE action between curly braces if and only if it is a single statement. Also goes for some other statements such as FOR, etc.

Ronald  8)
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