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Post July 20th, 2004, 7:32 am

I have created a nice simple email script
but 2 questions

1) How do I get this to send in HTML format (if it can be done)
2) If I can do Q1, can I include hyperlinks in the normal way

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$to="domain@domain.com,$emailAddress";
                                $subject = "New IT Request - Call Reference $callReference";

$message = "Hello $sesslogin, you have just submitted a request to IT Support.\n
This email is confirmation of that action and should be kept as such until you are notified that the request has been closed
                                    
You reported the problem:
$requestDetails";
                                    
                                    
if(mail($to,$subject,$message))
                                {
    echo "Your should have now received a copy of this email, providing your email address was input correctly.\n\n";
                                }
                                else

        {
                                echo "There was a problem sending the mail. Please check that you filled in the form correctly.\n
                                If you believe you have filled it in correctly, there may be a problem contacting the email\n server. Please try again later";
    }
  1. $to="domain@domain.com,$emailAddress";
  2.                                 $subject = "New IT Request - Call Reference $callReference";
  4. $message = "Hello $sesslogin, you have just submitted a request to IT Support.\n
  5. This email is confirmation of that action and should be kept as such until you are notified that the request has been closed
  6.                                     
  7. You reported the problem:
  8. $requestDetails";
  9.                                     
  10.                                     
  11. if(mail($to,$subject,$message))
  12.                                 {
  13.     echo "Your should have now received a copy of this email, providing your email address was input correctly.\n\n";
  14.                                 }
  15.                                 else
  17.         {
  18.                                 echo "There was a problem sending the mail. Please check that you filled in the form correctly.\n
  19.                                 If you believe you have filled it in correctly, there may be a problem contacting the email\n server. Please try again later";
  20.     }
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Post July 20th, 2004, 7:32 am

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Post July 20th, 2004, 8:56 am

Something like this works for me:

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$email = "to@emailaddress.com";
$headers = "From: Webform <from@emailaddress.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$subject = "This is an email yo";
$message = "blah blah blah";

mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);
  1. $email = "to@emailaddress.com";
  2. $headers = "From: Webform <from@emailaddress.com>\r\n";
  3. $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
  4. $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
  5. $subject = "This is an email yo";
  6. $message = "blah blah blah";
  8. mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);



not sure on hyperlinks... play around with it.
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Post July 20th, 2004, 8:57 am

Champion, I'll take that and give it a go

Thanks
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Post July 20th, 2004, 10:53 am

Cafu's code is correct. I have added a bit JUST to give you an idea as to how to put in hyperlinks:

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$email = "to@emailaddress.com";
$headers = "From: Webform <from@emailaddress.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
$subject = "This is an email yo";

$message = "<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR=\"#FFFFFF\" TEXT=\"#000000\" LINK=\"#0000FF\" VLINK=\"#800080\">
This is a link to <a href=\"http://www.yahoo.com\">Yahoo.com</a>
</BODY>
</HTML>
";

mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);
  1. $email = "to@emailaddress.com";
  2. $headers = "From: Webform <from@emailaddress.com>\r\n";
  3. $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
  4. $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
  5. $subject = "This is an email yo";
  7. $message = "<HTML>
  8. <HEAD>
  9. <TITLE></TITLE>
  10. </HEAD>
  11. <BODY BGCOLOR=\"#FFFFFF\" TEXT=\"#000000\" LINK=\"#0000FF\" VLINK=\"#800080\">
  12. This is a link to <a href=\"http://www.yahoo.com\">Yahoo.com</a>
  13. </BODY>
  14. </HTML>
  15. ";
  17. mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers);


This should work for you fine.
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Post July 20th, 2004, 11:11 am

also great, will apply asap

can I just ask what the \r entry is for
i know what \n and \t are for, but not \r
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Post July 20th, 2004, 11:24 am

beats the hell out of me, I just copied that from somewhere and it worked :twisted:


But, I can look it up! from

http://us3.php.net/types.string


\n = linefeed (LF or 0x0A (10) in ASCII)
\r = carriage return (CR or 0x0D (13) in ASCII)

So, if I had to guess I'd say they put both line feed and carriage return because different mail servers recognize different ones. Perhaps its so the code will work correctly with both *nix and windows mail servers.
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Post July 20th, 2004, 11:26 am

makes sense

i've just tried the code that you guys give me and its worked a treat, cheers
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Post July 20th, 2004, 11:42 am

Tommya,

Glad you got it working!

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