html e-mails from mail()

#1 (**permalink**) 08-02-2004

I've been using a function that uses mail() to try ant send a html e-mail,
with little sucess - the html displays as plaintext in the e-mail body.

I know about MIME, but I'm not really sure how to implement it in PHP
without using a pipe to sendmail.

Is there a good tutorial on the net - I've looked, but can only find e-books
and the like and I need a tutorial that's short and to the point.

Cheers,

Dave.

#2 (**permalink**) 08-03-2004

Problem solved - I've found out that it's best to have the headers as strigs
in the mail() command it's self - variables don't seem to work well.

Cheers,

David.

"Dafydd Monks" <dafydd.monks@dragondesigns.org.uk> wrote in message
news:cemc4d$rsn$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> I've been using a function that uses mail() to try ant send a html e-mail,
> with little sucess - the html displays as plaintext in the e-mail body.
>
> I know about MIME, but I'm not really sure how to implement it in PHP
> without using a pipe to sendmail.
>
> Is there a good tutorial on the net - I've looked, but can only find
e-books
> and the like and I need a tutorial that's short and to the point.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
>
>

#3 (**permalink**) 08-03-2004

$from = "me@mydomain.com";
$username = "Georgey Porgey";
$email = "pudding@pie.com";
$message = "This is a bold-face test!";

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"
. "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n"
. "To: $username <$email>\r\n"
. "From: $from\r\n"
. "X-Mailer: PHP " . phpversion() . "\r\n"
. "Reply-to: $from";

$body =<<<END
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
..test { font-weight: bolder; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<span class="test">$message</span>
</body>
</html>
END;

$sendmailargs = "-f " . $from;

if (mail('', $subject, $body, $headers, $sendmailargs))
{
print("Successful email sent");
}
else
{
print("Poo, email didn't send.");
}

Minus some minor details--factual email addresses namely--the code
above works perfectly every time, and you can see I'm using variables
all over the place. Now, one thing I did have a problem with is my
sendmail being set up and running correctly--imagine my surprise on
the very day I got sendmail configured correctly I start getting test
mail()'s I tried sending last year--but didn't have the time to track.
;)

Oh, and before I forget, if you supply a To header, don't put anything
for the first arguement of mail(), and vice versa.

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 00:01:44 +0100, "Dafydd Monks"
<dafydd.monks@dragondesigns.org.uk> wrote:

>Problem solved - I've found out that it's best to have the headers as strigs
>in the mail() command it's self - variables don't seem to work well.
>
>Cheers,
>
>David.
>
>"Dafydd Monks" <dafydd.monks@dragondesigns.org.uk> wrote in message
>news:cemc4d$rsn$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> I've been using a function that uses mail() to try ant send a html e-mail,
>> with little sucess - the html displays as plaintext in the e-mail body.
>>
>> I know about MIME, but I'm not really sure how to implement it in PHP
>> without using a pipe to sendmail.
>>
>> Is there a good tutorial on the net - I've looked, but can only find
>e-books
>> and the like and I need a tutorial that's short and to the point.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dave.
>>
>>
>

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