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Email header "Content"

« on: December 10, 2007, 07:17:56 PM »

Sometimes people are receiving emails with a blank text area.
Please show me the proper way to to write the bold part of this line of code.

$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

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« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2007, 10:22:10 AM »

If you're writing your own HTML email for the PHP mail() function:

$to = "recipient's address"; $from_email = "sender's address"; $subject = "your subject line"; $header_sep = "\r\n"; // may have to be \n on some systems // if you embed user-entered text, change CRs to \n's with str_replace() $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . $header_sep ; $headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" . $header_sep; $body = "<html>\n<head>\n<title>Title For Recipient To See</title>\n"; $body .= "</head>\n<body>\n"; $body .= "Here's an email from you\n"; ... $body .= "</body>\n</html>\n"; if ($from_email != "") { $headers = "From: $from_email" . $header_sep . $headers; // I think you can put a "Reply-To: ", "Cc: ", etc. in here, too } $headers .= $header_sep; // ensure that nothing in the mail body // can add bogus headers // make sure resulting body doesn't exceed 70 characters per line $body = wordwrap($body,70); if (!mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers)) { print "Unable to send mail! Please try again later.\n"; }

I offer no guarantee that there isn't some way to subvert this with "injection attacks" and generate spam. Usually it's safer to use a well-tested canned mail function, but sometimes you just need your own features.

Non-HTML (plain text) emails are a bit different. I'm not sure how to combine the two (HTML as the primary, plain text as the backup in case the email client can't handle HTML) into one email, but I've heard it can be done.


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« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2007, 04:53:43 PM »

I believe I have most of it straighten out now. I originally had some extra quotes in the content header. There are still some people telling me that they are getting blank text still. Three of them are have a daltonstate.ga.edu email address so I thinking they may be blocked thought most IT guys will block the whole email. Dalton State College is only 20 miles up the road so I might get may sister to drive me up there next week and talk to the IT guys.

I use $message = "<html><body>".nl2br($message)."</body></html>"; to wrap my text in html.


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