PHP Mail

[jimleeder123]

I've got this: mail($to,$subject,$message,"Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");

 

It sends through HTML e-mail fine, but I can't get it to show both who its from, and get the HTML bits in ("Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1").

 

Can anyone help please?

[Muddy_Funster]

Well, the second example on the manual page (here) covers multiple additional headers...

[jimleeder123]

I have tried using the code on that website but it comes up very weirdly.

 

Using this code:

 

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: James <blah@blah.co.uk>'. "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";
               
        
        mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

 

Brings up the result below (Only e-mail body pasted, can't post screenshot). Why is this? The HTML isn't working and Outlook isn't displaying the headers as I thought.

 

Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

 

To: James <james@blah.co.uk>

 

From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>

 

Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com

 

Message-Id: <20150605085118.303EA12206CA@localhost.prophettech.co.uk>

Date: Fri,  5 Jun 2015 09:51:18 +0100 (BST)

 

 

 

3.99 // variable is sent to email correctly like this

 

Margherita

 

  <i>Test</i>

[Muddy_Funster]

it's been a long time since I created any custom mail, but I did post up my old script for creating a multi-part MIME mail using the PEAR Net_SMTP.  Looking through that I remember that there are some nuances to getting each part of the message to work, including adding a content-type into the message as well as the header.  you'll find my code :here: looking over how the message was constructed could give you some insight into getting the html to work.

[fastsol]

Using a php library like phpmailer would make this a null subject cause it will automatically build all that for you, plus helps in delivery since it builds all the needed parts automatically.