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Sending HTML letters with PHP

I am trying to send a simple HTML email address with PHP. The code below simply indicates an empty email in GMail. It also has an empty application called "noname", which is not at all what I want; although this may just be a symptom that it does not work.

The code I use is:

<?php //define the receiver of the email $to = ' morrillkevin@gmail.com '; //define the subject of the email $subject = 'Test HTML email'; //create a boundary string. It must be unique //so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash $random_hash = md5(date('r', time())); //define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n $headers = "From: webmaster@example.com \r\nReply-To: webmaster@example.com "; //add boundary string and mime type specification $headers .= "\r\nContent-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\""; //define the body of the message. ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering ?> --PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello World!!! This is simple text email message. --PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <h2>Hello World!</h2> <p>This is something with <b>HTML</b>formatting.</p> --PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>-- <? //copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer $message = ob_get_clean(); //send the email $mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers ); //if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed" echo $mail_sent ? "Mail sent" : "Mail failed";
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It turns out the key is a type of encoding. Instead:

 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

I needed to use:

 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

This may depend on how detailed you save the PHP file in your text editor. I did not study it, but the iconv function in PHP may also have brought me joy. Therefore, I believe that this part is very sensitive.

Here is the best example code snippet that shows the whole thing:

 $notice_text = "This is a multi-part message in MIME format."; $plain_text = "This is a plain text email.\r\nIt is very cool."; $html_text = "<html><body>This is an <b style='color:purple'>HTML</b> text email.\r\nIt is very cool.</body></html>"; $semi_rand = md5(time()); $mime_boundary = "==MULTIPART_BOUNDARY_$semi_rand"; $mime_boundary_header = chr(34) . $mime_boundary . chr(34); $to = "Me < foo@gmail.com >"; $from = "Me.com < me@me.com >"; $subject = "My Email"; $body = "$notice_text --$mime_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit $plain_text --$mime_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit $html_text --$mime_boundary--"; if (@mail($to, $subject, $body, "From: " . $from . "\n" . "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" . "Content-Type: multipart/alternative;\n" . " boundary=" . $mime_boundary_header)) echo "Email sent successfully."; else echo "Email NOT sent successfully!"; exit;

Kevin

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If possible, use the PHPMailer class. This will greatly simplify your work.

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You must specify the mime type in the parameters of the headers-mail function. Add this:

 $header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; $header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

It is also shown in the PHP documentation for the mail function . See Example 4

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If using the library is not a problem, just use the Swift Mailer

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There is something important that I want to notice about the encodings here:

"Content-Type: text/plain; charset = \"UTF-8\";\n"

is right and not just

"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"

I hope I can help other people who are upset trying to find the same mistake as me.

Remember also to write only \ r for Windows, not for Linux servers. And at the end of the header should be an additional empty line:

 $headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset = \"UTF-8\";\n"; $headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"; $headers .= "\n";
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Hope this helps you in php

 $fname=$_POST['FirstName']; $lname=$_POST['LastName']; $dob=$_POST['DOB']; $name=$fname.' '.$lname; $HTML=" <style> <!-- .form_tbl{ border:1px solid #bbbbbb; background-color:#eeeeee;} .form_tbl td{ font-size:12px; color:#555555; padding:5px 5px; } h3{ font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-size:12px; font-weight:bold; color:#0099CC; margin:0; padding:0; } .form_tbl td select{ margin:0; padding:0;} .tbl_brdr{ border-top:1px solid #bbbbbb; border-left:1px solid #bbbbbb;} .tbl_brdr td{ border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb; border-right:1px solid #bbbbbb; padding:5px 5px 5px 10px; } --> </style> <table class='form_tbl' width='650' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='3'> <tr> <td colspan='2'><strong>PERSONAL DETAILS:</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width='250' > Name:</td> <td >".$name."</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign='middle'>Date Of Birth:</td> <td valign='top'>".$dob."</td> </tr> </table> "; $from=$name; $subject='Student Registration Form'; $to= ' yourmail@mail.com '; //$to=' development@ezone.com.np '; function sendHTMLemail($HTML,$from,$to,$subject) { // First we have to build our email headers // Set out "from" address $headers = "From: $from\r\n"; // Now we specify our MIME version $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n"; // Now we attach the HTML version $headers .= //"--$boundary\r\n". "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n"; //"Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n"; // And then send the email .... if (mail($to,$subject,$HTML,$headers)) { $_SESSION['msg']="Details successfully sent!"; } else { $_SESSION['msg']="Sending Failed! Please try again later."; } } sendHTMLemail($HTML,$from,$to,$subject); ?>
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