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I know this is a simple question, but having a hard time finding a simple solution.
I have a form on my PHP site that takes in the user message, then sends an email to my client with the message. I want the message sent to my client to be easily readable, without escaped characters \r , \n , \" , etc.
For example, the message is currently coming into the email as:
test\'s\r\nnew line \r\n\"quote\"
What I want it to come in as:
test's
new line
"quote"
Current code is:
if(isset($_POST['submit']) && !empty($_POST['email'])){
//Process form
$name = $_POST['name'];
$name = mysql_prep($name);
$email = $_POST['email'];
$email = mysql_prep($email);
$message = $_POST['message'];
$message = mysql_prep($message);
$emailto = "client_email1#gmail.com,client_email2#gmail.com";
$subject = "Message from '$name'";
// the message
$message = "<html><body>
<h3>Title</h3>
From: $name<br>
Email: $email<br><br>
Message:<br>
$message<br><br>
</body></html>";
//headers make the mail() work
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
mail($emailto, $subject, $message, $headers);
What you need is stripslashes() and nl2br().
nl2br will make newlines html br tags.
Stripslashes does what the name indicates, it removes slashes that is escape slashes.
echo stripslashes(nl2br($str));
Example: https://3v4l.org/RPYWt
Couple issues, first was my $message = mysql_prep($message); function was creating the escaped characters, so I just put that function after the mail() function. mysql_prep() was used to prevent mysql injection.
Second, I needed the $message = nl2br($message) function to maintain the user entered new lines from the form so the client can see the message as it was typed. I put the nl2br() function just after the $message = $_POST['message']; line.
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I am getting some data from a html form and sending them by email with PHP.
The issue is that i am getting weird characters because the language that the user writes in the form is Czech.
For example the name Anežka becomes Anežka
This is the code i have for my php which being used for sending the email.
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$to_alex = "myemail#honeywell.com"; // this is your Email address
$first_name = $_POST['fname'];
$first_name=mb_convert_encoding($first_name, "UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1");
$last_name = $_POST['lname'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$skola = $_POST['vysoka_skola'];
$obor = $_POST['obor'];
$prace = $_POST['prace'];
$phone_num=$_POST['phone_number'];
$linkedin=$_POST['linkedin'];
$oponenta=$_POST['oponenta'];
$vedouciho=$_POST['vedouciho'];
$files = $_FILES['myfile']['name'];
$kategorie = $_POST['kategorie'];
//echo gettype($files);
$all_thesis_string="";
$all_vedouciho_string="";
for($index=0;$index<count($_FILES['myfile']['name']);$index++){
$all_thesis_string.=$_FILES['myfile']['name'][$index].","; //create a string with all bachelor attachments of user
}
for($index=0;$index<count($_FILES['vedouciho_files']['name']);$index++){
$all_vedouciho_string.=$_FILES['vedouciho_files']['name'][$index].","; //create a string with all vedouciho attachments of user
}
for($index=0;$index<count($_FILES['oponenta_files']['name']);$index++){
$all_vedouciho_string.=$_FILES['oponenta_files']['name'][$index].","; //create a string with all oponenta attachments of user
}
$subject = "Form submission of ".$first_name." ".$last_name;
$message = "User Details: \n\n Jméno: $first_name \n Příjmení: $last_name \n Email: $email \n Telefon: $phone_num \n Linkedin: $linkedin \n Vysoká škola: $skola \n Studijní obor: $obor \n Odkaz na bakalářskou práci: $prace \n Kategorie: $kategorie \n Posudek oponenta: \n $oponenta \n Posudek vedouciho: \n $vedouciho \n Bakalářská práce: $all_thesis_string \n Vedouciho files: $all_vedouciho_string";
$headers = "From:" . $first_name;
mail($to_alex,$subject,$message,$headers);
echo '<span style="color:#AFA;text-align:center;"><strong>"Přihláška úspěšně odeslána. Děkuji "</strong></span>';
//include 'upload.php';
// You can also use header('Location: thank_you.php'); to redirect to another page.
}
?>
I have tried mb_convert_encoding in my last attempt but still i have the issue.
You need to tackle possible issues on both input and output stages of your program:
make sure, the browser knows, that you want UTF-8: It needs the tag <meta charset="utf-8"> somewhere in the <head> of your HTML. Otherwise it is possible, that it falls back to some legacy encoding when sending form data back to you.
make sure, e-mail clients know, that you send UTF-8 to them. They, too, will fall back to legacy encodings without explicitly telling them. Try adding these headers to the mail:
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
If you want UTF-8 in the subject and/or To fields, you need a separate way of quoting. I suggest you take a look at the excellent PHPMailer package that will handle all that for you.
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Right now im working on my signup and activation email, i have one problem it will not send the email, yes i have tested it, i have set
$to = 'myemail#example.com';
to my email before and it has worked but when i have
$to = $e;
it doesnt work
i have check and it does make the email the user puts in into a variable which is $e
so i have no idea what the problem is if someone can help that would be great
heres the mail form:
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
EDIT:
here is my whole mail code
$to = $e;
$from = "auto_responder#mywebsite.com";
$subject = 'Account Activation Success';
$message = '<html>Success</html>';
$headers = "From: $from\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
echo "signup_success";
exit();
EDIT x2:
I feel this will never be found out
i even tried this
$to = mysqli_real_escape_string($db_conx, $_POST['e']);
which post['e'] is the email the user put in
EDIT x3
after some test i noticed something
when i do
$to = 'myemail#gmail.com';
it doesnt send
but with
$to = 'myemail#hotmail.com';
it works so i guess its not sending to gmails?
It sounds like you want to get the 'e' query parameter from a form submission. If that's the case, try this:
$to = filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'e', FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
If your form uses POST, then swap in INPUT_POST instead of INPUT_GET. If you don't care about filtering or don't have the filter extension, you could just do this, which works with both GET and POST.
$to = $_REQUEST['e'];
I am creating my own contact form and sending all the inputs through variable to the mail function
But there is one error in it......my code is like this in the below...
$from = $_POST["from"];
// sender
$name = $_POST["name"];
$subject = $_POST["subject"];
$message = $_POST["message"];
// message lines should not exceed 70 characters (PHP rule), so wrap it
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);
$phone = $_POST["phone"];
$mytour = $_POST["select1"];
$howmany = $_POST["select2"];
$arrival = $_POST["arrival"];
$departure = $_POST["departure"];
$accommodation = $_POST["select3"];
$company = $_POST["company"];
// send mail
$messagecontent = "Name:$name , " . "Email:$from ," . "Nature of Enquiry:$subject ," . "Message:$message ," . "Phone No:$phone, " . "My Tour Wish List: $mytour, " . "How many days do you have available:$howmany, " . "Arrival Date:$arrival ," . "Departure Date:$departure ," . "My Preferred Accommodation:$accommodation, " . "Company Name:$company ,";
// $messagewithbreak=str_replace(',',', <br/>;',$messagecontent); // code replaces all your commas with , and a <br> tag
mail("abc#gmail.com", " Contact form Filled", "$messagewithbreak", "From: $from\n");
echo "Thank you for sending us feedback";
}
But when I receive it in the my email...there is not break tag <br> tag...and it receives as....
Name: , Email:abc#gmail.com ,Nature of Enquiry:none ,Message:none ,Phone No:none,My Tour Wish List: Heritage Tour of Kells,How many days do you have available:Half a Day, Arrival Date:2014-09-10 ,Departure Date:2014-09-10 ,My Preferred Accommodation:Hostel,Company Name:none
But I want it to view proper in the email.... as that is not the professional way... to see the email moreover it is difficult to read the email like this.....
what should I do please help me on it....
I will really appreciate your help.
Please answer my question nothing is helping me out here.I have tried..the methods given to me by jenz and rakesh but still the form when receive in the email shows as the paragraph without line breaks....it is getting frustrating
why you concat message string again and again. Also remove double quotes from variables in mail()
$messagecontent="Name:$name , Email:$from , Nature of Enquiry:$subject , Message:$message , Phone No:$phone, My Tour Wish List: $mytour, How many days do you have available:$howmany, Arrival Date:$arrival , Departure Date:$departure , My Preferred Accommodation:$accommodation, Company Name:$company ,";
$messagewithbreak=str_replace(',',',<br>',$messagecontent);
mail("abc#gmail.com"," Contact form Filled", $messagewithbreak, $from);
Properly add formatting to your message. Any HTML tags placed inside double quotes will be converted to the tag when you echo it. So you just need to add <br> in proper places inside the message content. Also all PHP variables inside double quotes will get replaced by its value. So no need of appending each string with double quotes.
$messagecontent="Name:$name <br> Email:$from <br>Nature of Enquiry:$subject
<br>Message:$message<br>Phone No:$phone<br>
My Tour Wish List: $mytour<br>How many days do you have available:$howmany<br> Arrival Date:$arrival <br> Departure Date:$departure <br> My Preferred
Accommodation:$accommodation<br>Company Name:$company ";
To send HTML email you have to add headers which is optional by default where we pass Content-Type type declaration telling mail services that parse this email as HTML.
$headers = "From: " . strip_tags($from) . "\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
and pass $headers in mail() like,
mail("abc#gmail.com", " Contact form Filled", $messagecontent, $headers);
You are trying to use HTML in a plain text email. If all you want to do is have line breaks, then use \n instead of the br tag.
If you want to use HTML in an email you must add a content-type header. See the PHP mail docs for an example.
// send mail
$messagecontent = "Name:$name \n ";
$messagecontent.= "Email:$from \n";
$messagecontent.= "Nature of Enquiry:$subject \n";
............
...............
Set all the variables like that.
I want to use a php script to send emails from a html file on a website.
Would this php script be secure enough against hacking and spam?
<?php
$to = "emailto#site.com";
$subject = "Sent from site";
$email = $_POST['emailFrom'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$email = filter_var($email , FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
$message = filter_var($message , FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
$message = $email . $message;
mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: webpage#site.com");
?>
FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL removes illegal email address characters from a string; this is, therefore not the best option for the contents of an email (however useful it may be for email addresses). Whilst removing HTML special characters is useful when preventing XSS attacks, it is worth noting that there are legitimate reasons to post < and > in messages (i.e. right now). Therefore it is better to convert these characters to their html entities.
I.e.
< would become <
and > would become >
So in order to change html characters to their entities replace:
$message = filter_var($message , FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL); with
$message = htmlspecialchars($message);
Other than that it looks good; but remember, in cases where a database is involved database sanitisation should also be added.
I have a problem when sending a form via email using the PHP Mail function. This is the code that I'm using:
$name = $_POST['name'];
$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
$company = $_POST['company'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$country = $_POST['country'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$message = $_POST['message']); //This comes from the form
$formcontent="Name: $name $last_name <br> Company: $company <br> Email: $email <br> Country: $country <br> Telephone: $phone <br><br> Message: $message";
$mailheader = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$mailheader .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable' . "\r\n";
$mailheader .= 'From: ' . $email . "\r\n";
mail("my#email.com", "subject", $formcontent, $mailheader) or die("Error!");
This is a form that will be sending spanish and special characters, like ñ, accents, ç, etc...
The problem is that, if I use it like this, it works fine in Firefox 3.6.3, but when using the form in Internet Explorer 8, the special characters that sends are all messed up (like ç instead of a ç). However, if I add utf8_encode to the variables in the $formcontent, then it works in IE, but it stops working in Firefox, showing stuff like η instead of ç.
What can I do to make it work regardless of the browser? Any help would be much appreciated!
EDIT:
I've noticed that, if I echo the $formcontent variable before sending it with mail, if I'm using Firefox, the special characters are already messed-up. How can I avoid the browsers interfering with what's being sent? Please I'm totally clueless right now!!! I don't know what to change to have something working. Even if it's a dumbed down version, is there any alternative to have PHP Mail working with special characters in both browsers?
Basically you need to make sure that every charset on your page is the same. Make sure the page has a utf-8 charset aswel. Since you're sending it in utf8 the input must come from utf8 aswell.
Could you perhaps show us the code of the page (or a live demo) where the mail is being made?