Send UTF-8 e-mail message using PHP

[filoaman]

Hello friends.

First of all note that i'm just an amateur php programmer, so please if what i ask is very dam don't shoot me...

I already search the form and found some solutions to send  UTF-8 e-mail message using PHP, but for some reason i have to use the above code.

The problem is that this code doesn't send  UTF-8 e-mail messages.

If you can help me please do it.

Thank you

 

<? php
$subject = "my subject in UTF-8";
$emailadd = '[email protected]';
$url = "http://www.mySite.com/";
$req = '0'; // Makes all fields required. If set to '1' no field can not be empty. If set to '0' any or all fields can be empty.


$text = "Results from form:\n\n";       
$space = '  ';
$line = '
';
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value)
{
if ($req == '1')
{
	if ($value == '')
	{echo "$key is empty";die;}
}
$j = strlen($key);
	if ($j >= 40)
	{echo "Name of form element $key cannot be longer than 20 characters";die;}
$j = 40 - $j;
	for ($i = 1; $i <= $j; $i++)
	{$space .= ' ';}
$value = str_replace('\n', "$line", $value);
$conc = "{$key}:$space{$value}$line";
$text .= $conc;
$space = '  ';
}

mail($emailadd, $subject, $text, 'From: '.$emailadd.'');
echo '<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh charset=utf-8 CONTENT="0; URL='.$url.'">';

?>

 

[jorgepinho]

Hi,

 

You need to set the encoding in the 4th argument, and not in the PHP output:

 

$headers = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";

 

Plz check the manual, you will find lots of examples:

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

[filoaman]

@jorgepinho

Thank you for your answer.

 

I had already visit, read and try examples from the web page you suggest.

My problem is that i can't understand where to put this "magic line"

$headers = 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . "\r\n";

...and how to use this variable ("$headers").

I try something like this:

mail($emailadd, $subject, $text, 'From: '.$emailadd., $headers'');

but in this case the mail function don't even send the mail!

 

Can you help me more please with the "4th argument", what do you mean exactly?

 

Thanks

[jorgepinho]

Hi,

 

You need to learn PHP syntax also, here is an example I *copied* from that page:

 

Change it to your needs

 

$to      = '[email protected]';
$subject = 'the subject';
$message = 'hello';

$headers = 'From: [email protected]' . PHP_EOL.
$headers .= 'Reply-To: [email protected]' . PHP_EOL .
$headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8' . PHP_EOL;

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);