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#1

Hi everyone…
I’m back again with a question about whether anyone knows PHP well enough to help me. I already have an emailing script all set up and implemented. What I want to know is how to send rich-text/HTML emails. I can’t get the

$content=  $_POST['Message'];

command to send rich text. When I try sending HTML code, it changes it so that you view, for example,

<HTML>

but when you look at the source, it is really

<html>

. How do I turn this off and make it send what I originally entered and not translate it?

#2

Does this help?:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php

#3

Did you set: Content-type: text/html

in the mailheaders???

#4

I don’t know how to set things in the mail headers. I am using a script that looks like this:

mail($mailto, $subject, $content, "From: $from");

and I have the variables stored elsewhere. I took a very careful look and realized that the problem wasn’t as I originally described. You’re totally right, macouno. Do you know how to set Content-type: text/html in the mail headers?

Edit:
Never mind! I figured it out by a few minutes on Google. Here’s the new snippett:

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0
";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
";
$headers .= "From: $from";

mail($mailto, $subject, $content, $headers);

My new question is: How do you get rid of the \ before all of the quotes? Isn’t it supposed to delete those when it generates the email? It does when it generates HTML to display in the browser…

#5

To remove the quotes:

$content = stripslashes($_POST[‘Message’]);

If magic_quotes is set for the PHP install you have, all quotes submitting in a post will be escaped with a .

Mark

#6

All right! It works great now! If you want the script, here it is… (except I removed the email address)

form section of email.htm:


<form name="email" method="post" action="send.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">


  <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="325">
    <tr>
        &lt;td valign="top" width="156"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Arial"&gt;<b>To:</b>&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;td width="144"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Arial"&gt;<b>&lt;input
        type="text" size="20" name="To"&gt; </b>&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
        &lt;td valign="top" width="156"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Arial"&gt;<b>Your Email:</b>&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;td width="144"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Arial"&gt;<b>&lt;input
        type="text" size="20" name="Email"&gt; </b>&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
        &lt;td valign="top" width="156"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Arial"&gt;<b>Subject:</b>&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;td width="144"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Arial"&gt;<b>&lt;input
        type="text" size="40" name="Subject"&gt; </b>&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;tr&gt;
        &lt;td valign="top" width="156"&gt;&lt;font size="2" face="Arial"&gt;<b>Message:</b>&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
        &lt;td width="144"&gt;&lt;textarea name="Message" rows="20"
        cols="60"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;/td&gt;
    &lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;/table&gt;
  

  &lt;input type="submit" name="button1" value="Submit"&gt;
  &lt;input type="reset" name="button2" value="Reset"&gt;


&lt;/form&gt;

send.php:


&lt;?   

$mailto=   $_POST['To'];
$subject=  $_POST['Subject'];
$from=     $_POST['Email'];
$content=  stripslashes($_POST['Message']);

$new_url=  "http://yoursite.com/thankyou.html";

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0
";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
";
$headers .= "From: $from";

mail($mailto, $subject, $content, $headers);

     if (isset($new_url)){
     header ("Location: $new_url");
     }


?&gt;

Here’s my email page: http://zevran.kjames.org/emailme.htm