html emails

[Space Cowboy]

<?php
//--SETS UP THE EMAIL LAYOUT WITH VARIABLES IN PLACE
$administrator="$email";
$subject="test mails";
$message.="$textarea\n";

//--SENDS THE EMAIL
mail($administrator,$subject,$message,"From:[email protected]");
?>

 

Hello, this is the code im using to send out an email (the variable $textarea" comes from a form (text area) just submitted).

 

The emails are sending out, however if I send out html, the actual code shows up in the email rather than the visual style the HTML should render. How do I change this?

[denechtew]

I can be wrong cause I'm learning php, but maybe it is:

mail($administrator,$subject,$message.,"From:[email protected]");
?>

 

cause you said in $message.   

[NArc0t1c]

You need the MIME header.

http://www.zend.com/zend/trick/html-email.php

[Space Cowboy]

thanks, but I dont understand where to insert the headers.

 

Ive tried copying and pasting the script on the page you gave but it just comes up with errors.

 

Do the headers need to be sent within the html part of the email or they are just set within the script?

[Space Cowboy]

<?php
//add From: header 
$headers = "From: [email protected]\r\n"; 

//specify MIME version 1.0 
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; 

//unique boundary 
$boundary = uniqid("HTMLDEMO"); 

//tell e-mail client this e-mail contains//alternate versions 
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative" . 
"; boundary = $boundary\r\n\r\n"; 

//message to people with clients who don't understand MIME 
$headers .= "This is a MIME encoded message.\r\n\r\n"; 

//plain text version of message 
$headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" . 
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . 
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("This is the plain text version!")); 

//HTML version of message 
$headers .= "--$boundary\r\n" . 
"Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n" . 
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; 
$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$abstract")); 

//send message 
mail("$email", "An HTML Message", "", $headers); 
?>

 

OK, ive adapted this code and I think im getting somewhere.

 

The email is being recieved in HTML, things like the bold/strong tag and H1/h2 tags are being picked up, but its stripping all style.

 

If I send something with a table like this:

 

 <table width="680" border="4" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#257690" bgcolor="#257690">

 

its being stripped and when recieved its coming out as just

 

<table>

 

 

arrrghhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[NArc0t1c]

Try making it W3 compliant.

 

Try this:

 <table width="680" style="border:4px;bordercolor:#257690;bgcolor:#257690;align:center;cellpadding:0;cellspacing:0">

[Space Cowboy]

for some reason that isnt sending it out at all!!!

 

besides which, I cant rely on whats being sent being W3 complient...and many HTML emails are sent out without being complient.