sending html email using php script

Hi,

I am trying to send a html email from a php script. This script emails
a common information to all the members in the database. The only
problem is I cannot specify colors, hyperlinks etc..Html tags like
<h1></h1>, <br/>, <b> etc works though..

Could any one tell me what i might be doing wrong? Any help will be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ann

Code:
function mail_it($content, $subject, $email, $recipient) {
global $attachment_chunk, $attachment_name, $attachment_type,
$attachment_sent, $bcc;
global $db;
global $msgbody;

$ob = "----=_OuterBoundary_000";
$ib = "----=_InnerBoundery_001";

$sql_result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM contacts", $db);
echo "<br/><b>Emails sent to:</b><br/>";

while($rs = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result))
{
$message = "";
$headers = "";
$recip = $rs["Email"];
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "From: ".$email."\r\n";
$headers .= "To: ".$recip."\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$email."\r\n";
if ($bcc) $headers .= "Bcc: ".$bcc."\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Formmail".VERSION."\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type:
multipart/mixed;\r\n\tboundary=\"".$ob."\"\r\n";

$ToName = $rs["Salutation"]."".$rs["FirstName"]."
".$rs["LastName"];


$content = "Hello ".$ToName.",<br/><br/>";
$content .= $msgbody;
$content .=" <br/><br/>";
$content .="Thank you.";
$content .=" <br/><br/><br/>";
$content .="<small><font color='blue'>Please send an email to <a
href='mailto:abc@def.com&subject='Re:Email Notifications' to get more
information.</font></small>";


$message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n";
$message .= "\r\n--".$ob."\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Type:
multipart/alternative;\r\n\tboundary=\"".$ib."\"\r\n\r\n";
$message .= "\r\n--".$ib."\r\n";
//$message .= "Content-Type:
text/plain;\r\n\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Type:
text/html;\r\n\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding:
quoted-printable\r\n\r\n";
$message .= $content."\r\n\r\n";
$message .= "\r\n--".$ib."--\r\n";
if ($attachment_name && !$attachment_sent) {
$message .= "\r\n--".$ob."\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Type:
$attachment_type;\r\n\tname=\"".$attachment_name." \"\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
$message .= "Content-Disposition:
attachment;\r\n\tfilename=\"".$attachment_name."\" \r\n\r\n";
$message .= $attachment_chunk;
$message .= "\r\n\r\n";
$attachment_sent = 1;
}
$message .= "\r\n--".$ob."--\r\n";

mail($recip, $subject, $message, $headers);
}

}

On 2004-10-04, Ann <nsajus@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to send a html email from a php script. This script emails
> a common information to all the members in the database. The only
> problem is I cannot specify colors, hyperlinks etc..Html tags like
><h1></h1>, <br/>, <b> etc works though..
>
> Could any one tell me what i might be doing wrong? Any help will be
> greatly appreciated.

No one likes HTML mails.
Your php knows that.

SCNR :)

Mail is Mail, not Web.

If you want your users to view Webpages send them a link.

And: HTML mails are often placed higher in spam rankings,
especially when not send correctly. So there's a high chance your
receivers will never read that, because their spam filters catch
it.

--
Marco Dieckhoff
icq# 22243433
GPG Key 0x1A6C95BA -- http://www.frankonia-brunonia.de/keys

Ann a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to send a html email from a php script. This script emails
> a common information to all the members in the database. The only
> problem is I cannot specify colors, hyperlinks etc..Html tags like
> <h1></h1>, <br/>, <b> etc works though..
>
> Could any one tell me what i might be doing wrong? Any help will be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ann
>
> Code:
> function mail_it($content, $subject, $email, $recipient) {
> global $attachment_chunk, $attachment_name, $attachment_type,
> $attachment_sent, $bcc;
> global $db;
> global $msgbody;
>
> $ob = "----=_OuterBoundary_000";
> $ib = "----=_InnerBoundery_001";
>
> $sql_result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM contacts", $db);
> echo "<br/><b>Emails sent to:</b><br/>";
>
> while($rs = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result))
> {
> $message = "";
> $headers = "";
> $recip = $rs["Email"];
> $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
> $headers .= "From: ".$email."\r\n";
> $headers .= "To: ".$recip."\r\n";
> $headers .= "Reply-To: ".$email."\r\n";
> if ($bcc) $headers .= "Bcc: ".$bcc."\r\n";
> $headers .= "X-Priority: 1\r\n";
> $headers .= "X-Mailer: Formmail".VERSION."\r\n";
> $headers .= "Content-Type:
> multipart/mixed;\r\n\tboundary=\"".$ob."\"\r\n";
>
> $ToName = $rs["Salutation"]."".$rs["FirstName"]."
> ".$rs["LastName"];
>
>
> $content = "Hello ".$ToName.",<br/><br/>";
> $content .= $msgbody;
> $content .=" <br/><br/>";
> $content .="Thank you.";
> $content .=" <br/><br/><br/>";
> $content .="<small><font color='blue'>Please send an email to <a
> href='mailto:abc@def.com&subject='Re:Email Notifications' to get more
> information.</font></small>";
>
>
> $message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\r\n";
> $message .= "\r\n--".$ob."\r\n";
> $message .= "Content-Type:
> multipart/alternative;\r\n\tboundary=\"".$ib."\"\r\n\r\n";
> $message .= "\r\n--".$ib."\r\n";
> //$message .= "Content-Type:
> text/plain;\r\n\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
> $message .= "Content-Type:
> text/html;\r\n\tcharset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
> $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding:
> quoted-printable\r\n\r\n";
> $message .= $content."\r\n\r\n";
> $message .= "\r\n--".$ib."--\r\n";
> if ($attachment_name && !$attachment_sent) {
> $message .= "\r\n--".$ob."\r\n";
> $message .= "Content-Type:
> $attachment_type;\r\n\tname=\"".$attachment_name." \"\r\n";
> $message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n";
> $message .= "Content-Disposition:
> attachment;\r\n\tfilename=\"".$attachment_name."\" \r\n\r\n";
> $message .= $attachment_chunk;
> $message .= "\r\n\r\n";
> $attachment_sent = 1;
> }
> $message .= "\r\n--".$ob."--\r\n";
>
> mail($recip, $subject, $message, $headers);
> }
>
> }
Use php.classmailer ; it 's a nice class

> No one likes HTML mails.
> Your php knows that.
>
> SCNR :)
>
> Mail is Mail, not Web.
>
> If you want your users to view Webpages send them a link.
>
> And: HTML mails are often placed higher in spam rankings,
> especially when not send correctly. So there's a high chance your
> receivers will never read that, because their spam filters catch
> it.

Wrong day of the week for a Sermon buddy --

--Wil

laidbak69@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > No one likes HTML mails.
> > Your php knows that.
> >
> > Mail is Mail, not Web.
> >
> > If you want your users to view Webpages send them a link.
> >
> > And: HTML mails are often placed higher in spam rankings,
> > especially when not send correctly. So there's a high chance your
> > receivers will never read that, because their spam filters catch
> > it.
>
> Wrong day of the week for a Sermon buddy --

<obligatory>
- I agree with that guy about HTML emails, but understand that sometimes you
don't have a choice
- Single quotes are usually preferable for PHP strings, as PHP doesn't have to
search them for variables
- Though most browsers parse them okay, you really should use double quotes for
HTML attributes
- *cough*CSS*cough*
</obligatory>

$content .="<small><font color='blue'>Please send an email to <a
href='mailto:abc@def.com&subject='Re:Email Notifications' to get more
information.</font></small>";

^^^^ this line is suspicious. Unless my NG reader mangled the mailto (which is
entirely possible), you don't have a closing </A> tag, you have a '&' instead of
'?' for the query string, you have a space and a single quote in your subject,
you didn't close your opening A tag with a '>' or even the proper quote


I'd try this:
$content .='<small><font color="blue">Please send an email to <a
href="mailto:abc@def.com?subject='.urlencode('Re:E mail Notifications').'">some
address</a> to get more information.</font></small>';

If that doesn't fix it, try viewing source and copying the HTML from the emails
you receive and run it through the w3c html validator (somewhere at w3c.org).

Shawn
--
Shawn Wilson
shawn@glassgiant.com
http://www.glassgiant.com