Problems with mail()

Posted: 07-09-2003, 06:36 PM

Ryan Ramsey

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Im having a formatting issue with mail().

My simple script looks like:

$key = blah@blah.com;
$subject = "My membership";
$message_to_send = "Hello".$key."";

mail($key, $subject, $message_to_send, "From: blah@blah.com");

When it comes to my email client it appears as:

Hello blah@blah.com

Instead of:

Hello blah@blah.com

I have also tried adding <html> and <body> tags but that doesn't seem to do anything.
I get other HMTL messages from amazon and such but it would appear that one generated from mail() is sending only raw text.
How do I get it to format HTML based message?

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Janwillem Borleffs

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Re: Problems with mail()

Posted: 07-09-2003, 08:48 PM

"Ryan Ramsey" <ryanramsey@yahoo.com> schreef in bericht
news:bhZOa.875$5o5.577540@news1.news.adelphia.net. ..

> Im having a formatting issue with mail().
>
>My simple script looks like:
>

.....

>When it comes to my email client it appears as:
> Hello blah@blah.com
>
>Instead of:
> Hello blah@blah.com

First of all: DO NOT send HTML mail to newsgroups!!! In your e-mail client
there's a setting which allows you to select plain text a-mails for
newsgroups and HTML for others.

To answer your question: Use the the fourth argument of the mail() function
to send a content type header with text/html as the value:

mail($key, $subject, $message_to_send, "From: blah@blah.com\nContent-Type:
text/html");

JW

Ryan Ramsey

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Re: Problems with mail()

Posted: 07-09-2003, 10:34 PM

Ok here is another question...

It would seem that the mail() is injecting a "! " in the text of
$message_to_sender:

So text that should read:

There once were three bears that lived in a big black house.

Would look like:

There once were three bears that lived in a big blac! k house

Does this look familiar? Does mail() have an issue with the size of the
message being passed? If I increase the size of the text, the "! " will move
accordingly (im guessing at char 255).

"Esteban Fernández" <eft0@gmx.nospam.net> wrote in message
news:3f0c7ed3@omega.ifxnw.cl...

> Easy, just replace you mail line code, for thi one.
>
> mail($key, $subject, $message_to_send, "Content-Type: text/html\nFrom:
> blah@blah.com");
>
> Regards.
> EF.
>
>
> "Ryan Ramsey" <ryanramsey@yahoo.com> escribió en el mensaje
> news:bhZOa.875$5o5.577540@news1.news.adelphia.net. ..
> Im having a formatting issue with mail().
>
> My simple script looks like:
>
> $key = blah@blah.com;
> $subject = "My membership";
> $message_to_send = "Hello".$key."";
>
> mail($key, $subject, $message_to_send, "From: blah@blah.com");
>
> When it comes to my email client it appears as:
>
> Hello blah@blah.com
>
> Instead of:
>
> Hello blah@blah.com
>
> I have also tried adding <html> and <body> tags but that doesn't seem to

> anything.
> I get other HMTL messages from amazon and such but it would appear that

one

> generated from mail() is sending only raw text.
> How do I get it to format HTML based message?
>
>
>

Janwillem Borleffs

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Re: Problems with mail()

Posted: 07-10-2003, 11:11 AM

"Ryan Ramsey" <ryanramsey@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:xL0Pa.1079$5o5.639092@news1.news.adelphia.net ...

> Ok here is another question...
>
> It would seem that the mail() is injecting a "! " in the text of
> $message_to_sender:
>
> So text that should read:
>
> There once were three bears that lived in a big black house.
>
> Would look like:
>
> There once were three bears that lived in a big blac! k house
>
> Does this look familiar? Does mail() have an issue with the size of the
> message being passed? If I increase the size of the text, the "! " will

move

> accordingly (im guessing at char 255).
>

A simple "Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1\n" should fix this.

JW

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