PHP to eMail [Resolved]

nate51 · January 10, 2008

I'm new to this forum and semi new to php. I am in need of help badly here as I have a deadline going.

I have a registry page (html) with fields for name, number, address etc.

The way I used to do php reg forms was to have a first page with fill in boxes (fields) after filling in clicking submit would link to a second page thanking people for registering...

An email would go to a specified email address displaying the information entered into the fields. Really basic script really simple but affective.

I now need to make an html email so that the field information is sent to a specific email address with html code around it to present the information to look more like a fill out card with a logo on the top right, then the basic simple text style.

I have been looking for awhile and am coming up dry for answers. Most of the tutorials I find don't detail how to make the field information display in the html email.

Can anyone help me? Or point me in the right direction?

-- Nathan

drummer101 · January 10, 2008

So wait, what you want is to send the registration page to them?

revraz · January 10, 2008

He wants to send them a HTML formatted email

The Little Guy · January 10, 2008

Go here:

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

scroll down to Example #4

Note: The headers are the most important

nate51 · January 10, 2008

He wants to send them a HTML formatted email

Bingo!

The way I know of and am used to is someone goes to a page fills out the form hits send and they see a "Thank you" page. Now someone on another end recieves an email with all their information to do what they please with it, i.e. enter into a data base, add to a mailing list etc.

But I need to change the way it arrives to the recipient. I need to change it from plain text to html.

revraz · January 10, 2008

Just know that quite a few people don't accept html email, like me.

drummer101 · January 10, 2008

He wants to send them a HTML formatted email

This part threw me off..

I now need to make an html email so that the field information is sent ... to present the information to look more like a fill out card with a logo on the top right, then the basic simple text style.

drummer101 · January 10, 2008

Just know that quite a few people don't accept html email, like me.

Ah I get it now, he doesn't want to send the HTML mail to the end user, he wants to send it to someone else.. an admin or mod persay

nate51 · January 10, 2008

Go here:

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

scroll down to Example #4

Note: The headers are the most important

I tried this one earlier and it did help me a bit, I now get html code to my email but lines like this...

<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$firstname \n</td>

<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$midname \n</td>

<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$lastname \n</td>

I know this is wrong because instead of getting the persons information it comes just as you see it "$firstname" etc.

I need to know how to make that call up the information entered into the fields.

revraz · January 10, 2008

$variables need to be in " " double quotes

nate51 · January 10, 2008

Ok,

The email now comes to my email address looking the way I want except for 2 issues remaining.

1. The logo I need on the right hand side is not showing even though I have allowed that email address to accept images and it is an absolute link.

2. The fields are still coming to my email like this $lastname \n. I have tried adding "" to them i.e. "$lastname \n" also like this "$lastname" and both ways don't bring the data in right.

btw thanks to all the replies from everyone so far.

revraz · January 10, 2008

Post the code, it will be easier.

nate51 · January 10, 2008

<?php
// multiple recipients
$to  = 'xxxx@xxxx.com';

// subject
$subject = 'e-Card';

// message
$message = '
<html>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">

<div align=center><table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1
bgcolor=#555555><tr><td><table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5><tr><td
class=title colspan=5 valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#ffffff>
<blockquote>Enrollment Card for xxxxxx</blockquote>
</td><td align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#ffffff>
<img src="http://www.xxxxxx.com/xxx/images/mail_logo.jpg" alt="[Logo]"
border=0></td>
</tr><tr>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Full Name:</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>"$firstname"</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>"$midname"</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>"$lastname"</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Date of Birth:</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>"$dob"</td>
</tr><tr>
<td class=label align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white> </td>
<td class=footer align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white>Last</td>
<td class=footer align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white>Middle</td>
<td class=footer align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white>First</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white> </td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white> </td></tr><tr>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Address:</td>
<td class=content colspan=3 align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>"$address"</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>City:</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>"$city"</td>
</tr><tr>
<td class=label colspan=6 align=left valign=middle nowrap
bgcolor=white> </td></tr><tr>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Province:</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>"$province"</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Postal Code:</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>"$postalcode"</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Kit Requested: </td>
<td colspan=2 align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee class=content>"$choice"</td>
</tr><tr>
<td class=label colspan=6 align=left valign=middle nowrap
bgcolor=white> </td></tr><tr>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Telephone:</td>
<td class=content colspan=2 align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>"$phone"</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Mobile Phone: </td>
<td colspan=2 align=left valign=middle bgcolor=#eeeeee class=content>"$cell"</td>

</tr><tr>
<td class=label colspan=6 align=left valign=middle nowrap
bgcolor=white> </td></tr><tr>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Beneficiary:</td>
<td class=content colspan=2 align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>"$beneficiary"</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Relationship:</td>
<td class=content colspan=2 align=left valign=middle bgcolor=#eeeeee>"$relation"</td>
<tr>
<td class=label colspan=6 align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>SGC3O</td>
</tr></table></td></tr></table>
</body>
</html>';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

This php is in the Thank You page.

revraz · January 10, 2008

Double quote the string that the variable is in.

In regards to the logo, can't help you there, but it may be better as an attachment.

$message = "
<html>
<body bgcolor='#ffffff'>

<div align=center><table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1
bgcolor=#555555><tr><td><table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5><tr><td
class=title colspan=5 valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#ffffff>
<blockquote>Enrollment Card for xxxxxx</blockquote>
</td><td align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#ffffff>
<img src='http://www.xxxxxx.com/xxx/images/mail_logo.jpg' alt='[Logo]'
border=0></td>
</tr><tr>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Full Name:</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$firstname</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$midname</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$lastname</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Date of Birth:</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$dob</td>
</tr><tr>
<td class=label align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white> </td>
<td class=footer align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white>Last</td>
<td class=footer align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white>Middle</td>
<td class=footer align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white>First</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white> </td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white> </td></tr><tr>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Address:</td>
<td class=content colspan=3 align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$address</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>City:</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$city</td>
</tr><tr>
<td class=label colspan=6 align=left valign=middle nowrap
bgcolor=white> </td></tr><tr>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Province:</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$province</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Postal Code:</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$postalcode</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Kit Requested: </td>
<td colspan=2 align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee class=content>$choice</td>
</tr><tr>
<td class=label colspan=6 align=left valign=middle nowrap
bgcolor=white> </td></tr><tr>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Telephone:</td>
<td class=content colspan=2 align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$phone</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Mobile Phone: </td>
<td colspan=2 align=left valign=middle bgcolor=#eeeeee class=content>$cell</td>

</tr><tr>
<td class=label colspan=6 align=left valign=middle nowrap
bgcolor=white> </td></tr><tr>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Beneficiary:</td>
<td class=content colspan=2 align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$beneficiary</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Relationship:</td>
<td class=content colspan=2 align=left valign=middle bgcolor=#eeeeee>$relation</td>
<tr>
<td class=label colspan=6 align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>SGC3O</td>
</tr></table></td></tr></table>
</body>
</html>";

nate51 · January 10, 2008

Double quotes didn't change anything.

I don't know if this helps or not but the php code I gave is in a php page that has html code to display images and text for the Thank You page.

Full page code.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background-image: url(images/bg.jpg);
background-position:Center;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
.textbox {
BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #333333 1px solid; FONT-SIZE: 11px; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(images/field_bg.gif); BORDER-LEFT: #333333 1px solid; COLOR: #2e415f; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; HEIGHT: 17px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f0eddc
}
.style9 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; }
.style10 {
font-size: 16px
}
.style11 {font-size: 18px}
.style12 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif}
.style13 {	color: #0168B3;
font-weight: bold;
}
-->
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
  var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
}
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
    d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
  if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
}

function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
  var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
   if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
}
//-->
</script>
</head>

<body onload="MM_preloadImages('images/nav/intro_btno.jpg','images/nav/group_btno.jpg','images/nav/reply_btno.jpg')">
<?php
// multiple recipients
$to  = 'xxxx@xxxx.com';

// subject
$subject = 'e_Card';

// message
$message = "
<html>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">

<div align=center><table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1
bgcolor=#555555><tr><td><table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5><tr><td
class=title colspan=5 valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#ffffff>
<blockquote>Enrollment Card for OACCPP</blockquote>
</td><td align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#ffffff>
<img src="http://www.xxxxxx.com/xxx/images/mail_logo.jpg" alt="[Logo]"
border=0></td>
</tr><tr>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Full Name:</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$firstname</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$midname</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$lastname</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Date of Birth:</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$dob</td>
</tr><tr>
<td class=label align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white> </td>
<td class=footer align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white>Last</td>
<td class=footer align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white>Middle</td>
<td class=footer align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white>First</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white> </td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=white> </td></tr><tr>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Address:</td>
<td class=content colspan=3 align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$address</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>City:</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$city</td>
</tr><tr>
<td class=label colspan=6 align=left valign=middle nowrap
bgcolor=white> </td></tr><tr>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Province:</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$province</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Postal Code:</td>
<td class=content align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$postalcode</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Kis Kit Requested: </td>
<td colspan=2 align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee class=content>$choice</td>
</tr><tr>
<td class=label colspan=6 align=left valign=middle nowrap
bgcolor=white> </td></tr><tr>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Telephone:</td>
<td class=content colspan=2 align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$phone</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Mobile Phone: </td>
<td colspan=2 align=left valign=middle bgcolor=#eeeeee class=content>$cell</td>

</tr><tr>
<td class=label colspan=6 align=left valign=middle nowrap
bgcolor=white> </td></tr><tr>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Beneficiary:</td>
<td class=content colspan=2 align=left valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>$beneficiary</td>
<td class=label align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>Relationship:</td>
<td class=content colspan=2 align=left valign=middle bgcolor=#eeeeee>$relation</td>
<tr>
<td class=label colspan=6 align=right valign=middle nowrap bgcolor=#eeeeee>SGC3O</td>
</tr></table></td></tr></table>
</body>
</html>";

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?> 

<table width="752" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td width="724"> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><div align="center"><img src="images/iaomaaw_logo.jpg" width="700" height="113" /></div></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#D9D9D9"><table width="75" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
      <tr>
        <td><a href="#" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('intro','','images/nav/intro_btno.jpg',1)"><img src="images/nav/intro_btn.jpg" name="intro" width="129" height="24" border="0" id="intro" /></a></td>
        <td><a href="#" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('group','','images/nav/group_btno.jpg',1)"><img src="images/nav/group_btn.jpg" name="group" width="140" height="24" border="0" id="group" /></a></td>
        <td><a href="#" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('reply','','images/nav/reply_btno.jpg',1)"><img src="images/nav/reply_btn.jpg" name="reply" width="131" height="24" border="0" id="reply" /></a></td>
        </tr>
    </table></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><table width="308" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4">
      <tr>
        <td width="14" class="style9 style10"> </td>
        <td width="282" height="30" class="style9 style10"><span class="style13">Replay Card</span><br /></td>
      </tr>
    </table></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><table width="357" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="8">
      <tr>
        <td width="341" class="style11 style12">Thank you for registering for a Kit</td>
      </tr>
    </table></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td> </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="50" bgcolor="#E2E2E2"><p align="center" class="style9">Contents Copyright © xxxxxxxx. All rights reserved.<br />
    For   more information, please contact us at <a href="mailto:xxx@xxxxxx.com">xxx@xxxxxx.com</a>.</p></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>

</html>

drummer101 · January 10, 2008

Edit: nevermind, didn't read the entire posted source. :-\

Edit2: try..

<td class=content colspan=2 align=left valign=middle bgcolor=#eeeeee>' . $relation . '</td>

Edit3: \/\/ Yeah that'd work too.

revraz · January 10, 2008

You didnt copy and paste what I entered, there are double quotes in the string you have to make single quotes.

Just copy/paste what I did over yours.

nate51 · January 10, 2008

Edit: nevermind, didn't read the entire posted source. :-\

Edit2: try..
<td class=content colspan=2 align=left valign=middle bgcolor=#eeeeee>' . $relation . '</td>
That did it!

Thank you so much for the help!

Everything works perfect.

drummer101 · January 10, 2008

No problem, glad to help

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