problem in mail function parameters

**Markus** · Mar 28 '08, 01:50 PM

That code is awfully laid out..

I stopped sifting through it at about halfway.

In order to help us help you, you need to: have the code laid out in a readable fasion, USE THE CORECT CODE TAGS (code=php), and also be descriptive as possible in your question.

Please take into consideration these, and then ask the question again.

Regards.

**ronverdonk** · Mar 28 '08, 05:20 PM

This code is absolutely unreadable and its logic cannot be followed. I think each member in this forum will think the same.

I presume that you copied this code from a site or an editor that does not have newlines, so all it concatenated.

Come back with the reformatted code and put it between [php] tags!

moderator

**aktar** · Mar 29 '08, 02:07 PM

Hi,

to send html in an email, you need to have the right header when calling the mail() function. Have a look at the following code (from the PHP manual) for guidance.

[PHP]<?php
// multiple recipients
$to = 'aidan@example. com' . ', '; // note the comma
$to .= 'wez@example.co m';

// subject
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Birthd ay Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <mary@example.c om>, Kelly <kelly@example. com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@examp le.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive @example.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@e xample.com' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?> [/PHP]

Regards

**ronverdonk** · Mar 29 '08, 02:30 PM

You are too quick! The code that was presented (in that awful format) shows, when run, just a number of instructions on how to make an email message. And it is also incorrect (see line 19). This is the result of running that html code

Code:

Code: ( php )
   1.      $to ="$_POST[email_addr]";
   2.      $subject = "Site Registration Confirmation";
   3.      $message = '
   4.  
   5.
   6.   
   7.
   8.
   9.
  10.      href=http://www.website.com/confirm.php?c='.$confirmationCode.'>http://www.website.com/confirm.php?c='.$confirmationCode.'
  11.
  12.      ';
  13.      $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
  14.      $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
  15.      $headers .= "X-Priority: 3\n";
  16.      $headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normal\n";
  17.      $headers .= "X-Mailer: php\n"
  18.      $from = "me@example.com";
  19.      $headers = "From: $from";    [B]// this is an error![/B]  
  20.       
  21.      mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);

Now my question to the OP hamsika is: what do you want with this, or, what is your problem/question?

Ronald

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