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[refiking]

I want to send a link through email using php.  I already have the email script written. I just need to know what is the line of code needed to send a link.  For example.  Here is what the body of the message looks like

$one = "Hello!.$bfn.\n\n Welcome to The Refiking";
$two = "\n\n When you login, you will be asked to change your password immediately.";
$three = "<a href="www.yahoo.com">Login Now</a>";
$message = $one . $two;

 

What do I need to change $three to?

[tibberous]

It depends on whether or not the mail service they are using allows html to be sent in emails. I would just sent the link as plain text.

[p2grace]

If you want to send your email in html you'll have to adjust your headers to do so.

[refiking]

Which headers do I adjust?  Can you provide a quick example?  Thanks!

[p2grace]

Here's a script I wrote for sending html emails.

 

// Send HTML Email

	// This function is used for emailing a standardized form
	$headers = "From: $from \r\n";
	$headers .= "Cc: $cc \r\n";
	$headers .="Bcc: $bcc \r\n";
	$boundary = uniqid(md5(date("YmdHis"))); 
	$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"; 

	//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";
	$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$html")); 

	$mailSucceed = @mail($to, $subject, "", $headers);
	if($mailSucceed){
	    echo  "<p style=\"color: #336699; font-weight: bold;\">Mail Sent Successfully</p>";
	}else{
	    echo   "<p style=\"color: #336699; font-weight: bold;\">Mail Failed to Send</p>";
	}

 

This requires a $subject, $from, $to, $bcc, $cc, and $html variables before running.  The $html would be the html of the email being sent.

[refiking]

OK.  So, would I make $html=www.yahoo.com?

[p2grace]

No html would be the entire message.

 

$one = "Hello!.$bfn.\n\n Welcome to The Refiking";
$two = "\n\n When you login, you will be asked to change your password immediately.";
$three = "<a href="www.yahoo.com">Login Now</a>";
$html= $one . $two . $three;

[p2grace]

Did this work for you then?  If it did could you click "Topic Solved" 

[refiking]

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/public_html/tp/mail.php on line 9

 

 

This is line 9:

$three = "<a href="www.yahoo.com">Login Now</a>";

[p2grace]

You need to escape the double quotes.

 

$three = "<a href=\"www.yahoo.com\">Login Now</a>";

[refiking]

The line in the email read like this:

 

When you login, you will be asked to change your password immediately.<a href="www.yahoo.com">Login</a>

[p2grace]

Please post your code so I can take a look at it.

[refiking]

<?php
$bfn = "Joe";
$user = 1;
$pass = 123;
$to = "johndoe@gmail.com";
$subject = "Test mail";
$one = "Hello $bfn!\n\n This is a verification email..";
$two = "\n\n When you login, you will be asked to change your password immediately.";
$three = <a href="www.yahoo.com">Login</a>;
$message = $one . $two . $three;
$from = "donotreply@refiking.com";
$headers = "From: $from";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
?>

[p2grace]

<?php
$bfn = "Joe";
$user = 1;
$pass = 123;
$to = "johndoe@gmail.com";
$subject = "Test mail";
$one = "Hello $bfn!\n\n This is a verification email..";
$two = "\n\n When you login, you will be asked to change your password immediately.";
$three = "<a href=\"www.yahoo.com\">Login</a>";
$message = $one . $two . $three;
$from = "donotreply@refiking.com";
$headers = "From: $from";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo "Mail Sent.";
?>

But note you must use the code I provided above in my previous posts to send this email as html, otherwise you'll see the <a href ... etc

 

If you don't care about sending it as an html email have $three look like this:

 

$three = "Login at www.yahoo.com";

[refiking]

Where should I place the code you gave me?

[p2grace]

Replace your code with this:

 

// Send HTML Email

	// This function is used for emailing a standardized form
    $bfn = "Joe";
    $to = "johndoe@gmail.com";
    $cc = "";
    $bcc = "";
    $subject = "Test Mail";
    $one = "Hello $bfn!\n\n This is a verification email..";
	$two = "\n\n When you login, you will be asked to change your password immediately.";
	$three = "<a href=\"www.yahoo.com\">Login</a>";
	$message = $one . $two . $three;
	$from = "donotreply@refiking.com";
    
	$headers = "From: $from \r\n";
	$headers .= "Cc: $cc \r\n";
	$headers .="Bcc: $bcc \r\n";
	$boundary = uniqid(md5(date("YmdHis"))); 
	$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"; 

	//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";
	$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$html")); 

	$mailSucceed = @mail($to, $subject, "", $headers);
	if($mailSucceed){
	    echo  "<p style=\"color: #336699; font-weight: bold;\">Mail Sent Successfully</p>";
	}else{
	    echo   "<p style=\"color: #336699; font-weight: bold;\">Mail Failed to Send</p>";
	}

 

Let me know if it works

[refiking]

This is what the email reads:

 

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

 

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

[p2grace]

Woops that makes sense, change this

 

$message = $one . $two . $three;

 

to

 

$html = $one . $two . $three;

 

Let me know if it still gives you the same error

[refiking]

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

 

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

 

 

 

SGVsbG8gSm9lIQoKIFRoaXMgaXMgYSB2ZXJpZmljYXRpb24gZW1haWwuLgoKIFdoZW4geW91IGxv

 

Z2luLCB5b3Ugd2lsbCBiZSBhc2tlZCB0byBjaGFuZ2UgeW91ciBwYXNzd29yZCBpbW1lZGlhdGVs

 

eS48YSBocmVmPSJ3d3cueWFob28uY29tIj5Mb2dpbjwvYT4=

[p2grace]

You used my code exactly?  Can you please post your code so I review it.

 

Thanks.

[refiking]

<?php

// Send HTML Email










// This function is used for emailing a standardized form
    $bfn = "Joe";
    $to = "user@refiking.com";
    $cc = "";
    $bcc = "";
    $subject = "Test Mail";
    $one = "Hello $bfn!\n\n This is a verification email..";





$two = "\n\n When you login, you will be asked to change your password immediately.";





$three = "<a href=\"www.yahoo.com\">Login</a>";





$html = $one . $two . $three;





$from = "donotreply@refiking.com";






$headers = "From: $from \r\n";





$headers .= "Cc: $cc \r\n";





$headers .="Bcc: $bcc \r\n";





$boundary = uniqid(md5(date("YmdHis")));





$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";










//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";





$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$html"));












$mailSucceed = @mail($to, $subject, "", $headers);





if($mailSucceed){





    echo  "<p style=\"color: #336699; font-weight: bold;\">Mail Sent Successfully</p>";





}else{





    echo   "<p style=\"color: #336699; font-weight: bold;\">Mail Failed to Send</p>";





}

?>

[p2grace]

The following works for me, I just tested this script

 

Copy it exactly as it, changing only the email fields.

 

<?

// Send HTML Email

	// This function is used for emailing a standardized form
    $bfn = "Joe";
    $to = "joe@gmail.com";
    $from = "donotreply@refiking.com";
    $cc = "";
    $bcc = "";
    $subject = "Test Mail";
    $one = "Hello $bfn!\n\n This is a verification email..";
	$two = "\n\n When you login, you will be asked to change your password immediately.";
	$three = "<a href=\"www.yahoo.com\">Login</a>";
	$html = $one . $two . $three;
    
	$headers = "From: $from \r\n";
	$headers .= "Cc: $cc \r\n";
	$headers .="Bcc: $bcc \r\n";
	$boundary = uniqid(md5(date("YmdHis"))); 
	$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"; 

	//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";
	$headers .= chunk_split(base64_encode("$html")); 

	$mailSucceed = @mail($to, $subject, "", $headers);
	if($mailSucceed){
	    echo  "<p style=\"color: #336699; font-weight: bold;\">Mail Sent Successfully</p>";
	}else{
	    echo   "<p style=\"color: #336699; font-weight: bold;\">Mail Failed to Send</p>";
	}
?>

 

This code should work, I just tested it.

[refiking]

I copied it exactly and only changed the email field and this is what I got:

 

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

 

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

 

 

 

SGVsbG8gSm9lIQoKIFRoaXMgaXMgYSB2ZXJpZmljYXRpb24gZW1haWwuLgoKIFdoZW4geW91IGxv

 

Z2luLCB5b3Ugd2lsbCBiZSBhc2tlZCB0byBjaGFuZ2UgeW91ciBwYXNzd29yZCBpbW1lZGlhdGVs

 

eS48YSBocmVmPSJ3d3cueWFob28uY29tIj5Mb2dpbjwvYT4=

 

 

 

[p2grace]

Which version of php are you using?

[refiking]

4.1