Re: [PHP] Cannot send a hyperlink
This is a discussion on Re: [PHP] Cannot send a hyperlink within the PHP General forums, part of the PHP Programming Forums category; Brad wrote: > No access to the server command line to install it! > And, I am into this guy ...
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Re: [PHP] Cannot send a hyperlink
Brad wrote:
> No access to the server command line to install it! > And, I am into this guy too deep to switch technologies. For the next time > around, no problem, this time I am just trying to get php to do what it is > supposed to do. You don't need command line access to install it. PHPMailer consists of PHP only - nothing to install but PHP files. See here: http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/install.php > The suggestion of mime was presented to me from another kind sole trying to > help that knows more than I and recommended on other help files. > > Why is php refusing to parse as html? And here lies the basic problem. PHP is *not* the thing that's refusing to parse it as HTML. Since you don't know that you really should do a lot of reading before you try sending HTML emails without using something like PHPMailer. For beeps and farts I've "fixed" your code, but even though it will now "work" it is nowhere near the right way to send this type of email, but my life is probably going to be too short to tell you what you could easily find out yourself. $email = $_REQUEST['email']; $fromaddress = 'admin@zoneofsuccessclub.com'; $fromname = 'Zone of success Club'; $eol = "\r\n"; $headers = 'From: '.$fromname.' <'.$fromaddress.'>'.$eol; $headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$fromname.' <'.$fromaddress.'>'.$eol; $headers .= 'Return-Path: '.$fromname.' <'.$fromaddress.'>'.$eol; $headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP '.phpversion().$eol; $headers .= 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'.$eol; $headers .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'; $subject = 'This is my spam, worship me'; $body = '<a href="http://www.zoneofsuccessclub.com/">link</a>'; mail($email, $subject, $body, $headers); Some *important* notes... * I defined $subject because it tries to use it. * You don't need to provide the MessageID - your mail server will do that for you... correctly. * You don't need to add two carriage returns at the end of the headers - PHP will do that for you. * This email will be in HTML only which makes it a lot more likely to get flagged as spam. * If you're on a unix-based platform you really should be using the 5th parameter to mail, but that's probably going to confuse the hell out of you so I won't mention it. D'oh! * This code is not secure. It's trivial to inject headers (and a body too) into the message. You should be validating that $_REQUEST['email'] is a valid email address and just a valid email address. -Stut -- http://stut.net/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Stut [mailto:stuttle@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:46 AM > To: Brad > Cc: 'Daniel Brown'; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [php] Cannot send a hyperlink > > Brad wrote: >> Beginning with >> $headers .= "--".$htmlalt_mime_boundary.$eol; >> It starts to read it as text and not html?? >> >> Could this be a server side problem? >> >> $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ; >> $fromaddress .= 'admin@zoneofsuccessclub.com'; >> $fromname .= 'Zone of success Club'; >> $eol="\r\n"; >> $headers = "From: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol; >> $headers .= "Reply-To: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol; >> $headers .= "Return-Path: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol; >> $headers .= "Message-ID: <".time()."-".$fromaddress.">".$eol; >> $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP ".phpversion().$eol; >> $headers .= "--".$htmlalt_mime_boundary.$eol; >> $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1".$eol; >> $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol; >> $body = "<a href=\"http://www.zoneofsuccessclub.com\">link </a>\n"; >> mail($email, $subject, $body, $headers); > > You should not have a mime boundary in your headers. Why not use > PHPMailer? All this (apparently) complicated stuff is already > implemented for you. Either that or spend a few days learning about the > structure of emails by following the links Daniel Brown sent you a few > emails ago. > > PHPMailer can be found here: http://phpmailer.sf.net/ > > -Stut > 
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RE: [PHP] Cannot send a hyperlink
Thank you so much!
It worked like a champ first try! I would have never seen that and have been looking everywhere on the net for a working example! Funny thing is, right after is work perfectly twice, my database crashed! But, this is the technology we play with! Problem solved and I am going to post this code on the php website for others to reference! Thank you! -----Original Message----- From: Stut [mailto:stuttle@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 10:16 AM To: Brad Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [php] Cannot send a hyperlink Brad wrote: > No access to the server command line to install it! > And, I am into this guy too deep to switch technologies. For the next time > around, no problem, this time I am just trying to get php to do what it is > supposed to do. You don't need command line access to install it. PHPMailer consists of PHP only - nothing to install but PHP files. See here: http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/install.php > The suggestion of mime was presented to me from another kind sole trying to > help that knows more than I and recommended on other help files. > > Why is php refusing to parse as html? And here lies the basic problem. PHP is *not* the thing that's refusing to parse it as HTML. Since you don't know that you really should do a lot of reading before you try sending HTML emails without using something like PHPMailer. For beeps and farts I've "fixed" your code, but even though it will now "work" it is nowhere near the right way to send this type of email, but my life is probably going to be too short to tell you what you could easily find out yourself. $email = $_REQUEST['email']; $fromaddress = 'admin@zoneofsuccessclub.com'; $fromname = 'Zone of success Club'; $eol = "\r\n"; $headers = 'From: '.$fromname.' <'.$fromaddress.'>'.$eol; $headers .= 'Reply-To: '.$fromname.' <'.$fromaddress.'>'.$eol; $headers .= 'Return-Path: '.$fromname.' <'.$fromaddress.'>'.$eol; $headers .= 'X-Mailer: PHP '.phpversion().$eol; $headers .= 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'.$eol; $headers .= 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit'; $subject = 'This is my spam, worship me'; $body = '<a href="http://www.zoneofsuccessclub.com/">link</a>'; mail($email, $subject, $body, $headers); Some *important* notes... * I defined $subject because it tries to use it. * You don't need to provide the MessageID - your mail server will do that for you... correctly. * You don't need to add two carriage returns at the end of the headers - PHP will do that for you. * This email will be in HTML only which makes it a lot more likely to get flagged as spam. * If you're on a unix-based platform you really should be using the 5th parameter to mail, but that's probably going to confuse the hell out of you so I won't mention it. D'oh! * This code is not secure. It's trivial to inject headers (and a body too) into the message. You should be validating that $_REQUEST['email'] is a valid email address and just a valid email address. -Stut -- http://stut.net/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Stut [mailto:stuttle@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:46 AM > To: Brad > Cc: 'Daniel Brown'; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [php] Cannot send a hyperlink > > Brad wrote: >> Beginning with >> $headers .= "--".$htmlalt_mime_boundary.$eol; >> It starts to read it as text and not html?? >> >> Could this be a server side problem? >> >> $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ; >> $fromaddress .= 'admin@zoneofsuccessclub.com'; >> $fromname .= 'Zone of success Club'; >> $eol="\r\n"; >> $headers = "From: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol; >> $headers .= "Reply-To: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol; >> $headers .= "Return-Path: ".$fromname."<".$fromaddress.">".$eol; >> $headers .= "Message-ID: <".time()."-".$fromaddress.">".$eol; >> $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP ".phpversion().$eol; >> $headers .= "--".$htmlalt_mime_boundary.$eol; >> $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1".$eol; >> $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol; >> $body = "<a href=\"http://www.zoneofsuccessclub.com\">link </a>\n"; >> mail($email, $subject, $body, $headers); > > You should not have a mime boundary in your headers. Why not use > PHPMailer? All this (apparently) complicated stuff is already > implemented for you. Either that or spend a few days learning about the > structure of emails by following the links Daniel Brown sent you a few > emails ago. > > PHPMailer can be found here: http://phpmailer.sf.net/ > > -Stut > No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.32/1131 - Release Date: 11/14/2007 4:54 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.32/1131 - Release Date: 11/14/2007 4:54 PM
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Re: [PHP] Cannot send a hyperlink
On Nov 15, 2007 5:34 PM, Brad <brads@ftnco.com> wrote:
> Thank you so much! > > It worked like a champ first try! > I would have never seen that and have been looking everywhere on the net for > a working example! > > Funny thing is, right after is work perfectly twice, my database crashed! > > But, this is the technology we play with! > > Problem solved and I am going to post this code on the php website for > others to reference! > > Thank you! > I think there is already a good example of sending mails with html : http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
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RE: [PHP] Cannot send a hyperlink
Not a single reference to sending a hyperlink on that page!
-----Original Message----- From: Dimiter Ivanov [mailto:erazorbg@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 11:27 AM To: Brad Cc: Stut; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [php] Cannot send a hyperlink On Nov 15, 2007 5:34 PM, Brad <brads@ftnco.com> wrote: > Thank you so much! > > It worked like a champ first try! > I would have never seen that and have been looking everywhere on the net for > a working example! > > Funny thing is, right after is work perfectly twice, my database crashed! > > But, this is the technology we play with! > > Problem solved and I am going to post this code on the php website for > others to reference! > > Thank you! > I think there is already a good example of sending mails with html : http://php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.32/1131 - Release Date: 11/14/2007 4:54 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.32/1131 - Release Date: 11/14/2007 4:54 PM
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