PHP Mail Header and New Lines

Josh Johnson · Josh Johnson

I'm using PHP to send out email to users when they submit a form (user
registration). The email gets sent just fine, but I'd like to be able to
send HTML emails as well. After consulting php.net, I noted that I have
to add the correct headers to the email. My problem is that the carriage
returns and new lines are being parsed as regular characters, so the
headers are incomplete. Example:

MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Where is should instead be:

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

I know the servers are Unix servers, so I've even tried removing the
Windows \r, but it doesn't seem to help. Anyone know what's wrong and
why it's not adhering to the new line?

- Josh

Josh Johnson · Josh Johnson

Here's the example code I'm working with:

function sendEmail() {
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n ';
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 ';
$to = $name . ' <' . $address . '>';
$subject = 'User Registration';
$message = '<html><body><p>';
$message .= 'Canned message here';
$message .= '</p></body></html>';
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
}

Kerry Snow · Kerry Snow

Josh,

First, I apologize for being of no help, regarding your question. I'm just
learning PHP, and have many more quesstions than answers.

With that in mind, I'm trying to set up forms on my pages to automatically
e-mail to specified addresses, when the form is submitted to the database.
It sounds like you've already figured that out. How did you do that?

Thanks,

Kerry

"Josh Johnson" <josh.johnson@nospam.sun.com> wrote in message
news:d17ssg$26n$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> I'm using PHP to send out email to users when they submit a form (user
> registration). The email gets sent just fine, but I'd like to be able to
> send HTML emails as well. After consulting php.net, I noted that I have to
> add the correct headers to the email. My problem is that the carriage
> returns and new lines are being parsed as regular characters, so the
> headers are incomplete. Example:
>
> MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> Where is should instead be:
>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> I know the servers are Unix servers, so I've even tried removing the
> Windows \r, but it doesn't seem to help. Anyone know what's wrong and why
> it's not adhering to the new line?
>
> - Josh

Michael Fesser · Michael Fesser

.oO(Josh Johnson)

>My problem is that the carriage
>returns and new lines are being parsed as regular characters, so the
>headers are incomplete.

Use double quotes around the string or PHP won't recognize the special
chars.

Micha

Josh Johnson · Josh Johnson

I've been working more javascript than PHP lately, and had forgotten
that PHP treats single and double quotes differently. Thanks for the
reminder!

- Josh

Michael Fesser wrote:

> .oO(Josh Johnson)
>
>

>>My problem is that the carriage
>>returns and new lines are being parsed as regular characters, so the
>>headers are incomplete.

>
>
> Use double quotes around the string or PHP won't recognize the special
> chars.
>
> Micha

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