sending html in an email script

[Dragen]

I'm sure this has been asked many times before but I've got an email script which sends an email to both my client and myself.

I know that if I put html in the email, such as

<strong>hi</strong>

It outputs:

<strong>hi</strong>

instead of:

hi

 

How do I set it to accept html? or is there another way of entering html?

Is it to do with the content-type? I'm using:

      "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
      "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\r\n" .
      " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

using miltipart/mixed, because I'm sending attachements with the email.

 

Thanks

[taith]

$header.="Content-Type: text/html\n";

[Dragen]

But I thought if I'm sending attachements then the content-type needed to be

multipart/mixed

[taith]

... not... exactly... you create a boundary... so it knows that part of the email is file, other part is text/html

[taith]

besides... text is sent through the mail($text...) field... files are sent through headers ;-)

[Dragen]

hmm.. I think I've coded it wrong in that case.. If I changs the type to text/html it just output a load of random letters and numbers instead of the attachement:

PHVsPg0KCQkJPGxpPjxzdHJvbmc+V2hvIG93bnMgdGhlIHdlYnNpdGU/PC9zdHJvbmc+DQoJCQkJ PHVsPg0KCQkJCQk8bGk+WW91ICh0aGUgY2xpZW50KSBhcmUgaGlyaW5nIEdpbXAgUHJvZHVjdGlv bnMgdG8gcHJvZHVjZSBhIHdlYnNpdGUgZm9yIHlvdXIgbmVlZHMgYW5kIHNwZWNpZmljYXRpb25z LjwvbGk+DQoJCQkJCTxsaT5UaGUgY2xpZW50IGlzIGJ1eWluZyB0aGUgZmluYWwgb3V0Y29tZSBv ZiB0aGUgd2Vic2l0ZSBhcyBhIGZpbmlzaGVkIHByb2R1Y3QgYW5kIHRoZXJlZm9yZSB0aGUgY2xp

there's a lot more but I thought I'd let you off reading it all

 

here's the code I'm using:

	if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])>7 ||
	!strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']))
	die("Bad referer");

      // get the sender's name and email address
      // we'll just plug them a variable to be used later
      $from = stripslashes($_POST['sig']) . "<dragen@gimppro.co.uk>";

      // generate a random string to be used as the boundary marker
      $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x" . md5(mt_rand()) . "x";

  // now we'll build the message headers
      $headers = "From: $from\r\n" .
      "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n" .
      "Content-Type: text/html;\r\n" .
      " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

      $message = "<strong>client acknowledgement form</strong>:\n";
  $message .= "The undersigned persons have read and accepted the terms displayed in the attached client acknowledgement form.\n";
  $message .= "<strong>" . $_POST['sig'] . "</strong>\n\n";
  $message .= "Yours Sincerely,\n";
  $message .= "Lee Croucher\n";
  $message .= "gimp productions";
  
  // next, we'll build the invisible portion of the message body
  // note that we insert two dashes in front of the MIME boundary 
  // when we use it
  $message = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .
      "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
      "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .
      "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .
  $message . "\n\n";

  // now we'll process our acknowledgement file
	$file = "toa.txt"; // opens the txt file for the item. Then sets description as the text file.
	$fh = fopen($file, 'rb');
	if(!$fh){
		echo "Can't find acknowledgement file: " . $file;
		exit;
	}else{
		// read the file content into a variable
		$data = fread($fh, filesize($file));

            // close the file
            fclose($fh);

            // now we encode it and split it into acceptable length lines
            $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

         // now we'll insert a boundary to indicate we're starting the attachment
         // we have to specify the content type, file name, and disposition as
         // an attachment, then add the file content.
         // NOTE: we don't set another boundary to indicate that the end of the 
         // file has been reached here. we only want one boundary between each file
         // we'll add the final one after the loop finishes.
         $message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .
            "Content-Type: text/html;\n" .
            " name=\"clientform\"\n" .
            "Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .
            " filename=\"{$file}\"\n" .
            "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .
         $data . "\n\n";
	}

   // here's our closing mime boundary that indicates the last of the message
   $message .= "--{$mime_boundary}--\n";
   
      $recipient = "dragen@gimppro.co.uk";
      $subject = "Gimp client acknowledgement";
  
echo "\t<tr>\n\t\t<td>";
      if (@mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $headers)){
	echo '<p align="center" style="font-size:larger;">Thank you</p>';
	echo '<p align="center">your signature has been sent to Gimp Productions for verification and we will get back to you as soon as possible.</p>';
      }else{
         echo "<p align='center'><span class='header'>An error occurred and the message could not be sent.</span><br /><a href='javascript:history.go(-1);'>please try again</a></p>";
      }
echo "<td>\n\t<tr>\n";