How can I send an HTML-formatted email with pictures using PHP?
I want to have a page with some settings and HTML output which is sent via email to an address. What should I do?
The main problem is to attach files. How can I do that?
It is pretty simple. Leave the images on the server and send the PHP + CSS to them...
$to = 'bob#example.com';
$subject = 'Website Change Request';
$headers = "From: " . strip_tags($_POST['req-email']) . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . strip_tags($_POST['req-email']) . "\r\n";
$headers .= "CC: susan#example.com\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
$message = '<p><strong>This is strong text</strong> while this is not.</p>';
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
It is this line that tells the mailer and the recipient that the email contains (hopefully) well-formed HTML that it will need to interpret:
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\r\n";
Here is the link I got the information from... (link)
You will need security though...
You need to code your HTML content using the absolute path for images. By absolute path, I mean you have to upload the images to a server and in the src attribute of images you have to give the direct path, like this <img src="http://yourdomain.com/images/example.jpg">.
Below is the PHP code for your reference: It’s taken from mail:
<?php
// Multiple recipients
$to = 'aidan#example.com' . ', '; // Note the comma
$to .= 'wez#example.com';
// Subject
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';
// Message
$message = '
<p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
';
// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";
// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <mary#example.com>, Kelly <kelly#example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday#example.com>' . "\r\n";
// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
I have this code and it will run perfectly for my site:
public function forgotpassword($pass, $name, $to)
{
$body = "<table width=100% border=0><tr><td>";
$body .= "<img width=200 src='";
$body .= $this->imageUrl();
$body .= "'></img></td><td style=position:absolute;left:350;top:60;><h2><font color = #346699>PMS Pvt Ltd.</font><h2></td></tr>";
$body .= '<tr><td colspan=2><br/><br/><br/><strong>Dear '.$name.',</strong></td></tr>';
$body .= '<tr><td colspan=2><br/><font size=3>As per Your request we send Your Password.</font><br/><br/>Password is : <b>'.$pass.'</b></td></tr>';
$body .= '<tr><td colspan=2><br/>If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at:<br/>support#pms.com</td></tr>';
$body .= '<tr><td colspan=2><br/><br/>Best regards,<br>The PMS Team.</td></tr></table>';
$subject = "Forgot Password";
$this->sendmail($body, $to, $subject);
}
Mail function
function sendmail($body, $to, $subject)
{
//require_once 'init.php';
$from = 'testing#gmail.com';
$headersfrom = '';
$headersfrom .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headersfrom .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headersfrom .= 'From: ' . $from . ' ' . "\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headersfrom);
}
The image URL function is used for if you want to change the image. You have to it change in only one function. I have many mail functions, like for forgot password or create user. Therefore I am using the image URL function. You can directly set the path.
function imageUrl()
{
return "http://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 0, strrpos($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], "/") + 1) . "images/capacity.jpg";
}
Sending an HTML email is not much different from sending normal emails using PHP. What is necessary to add is the content type along the header parameter of the PHP mail() function. Here is an example.
<?php
$to = "toEmail#domain.com";
$subject = "HTML email";
$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML email</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>A table as email</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Firstname</th>
<th>Lastname</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fname</td>
<td>Sname</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
";
// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\b";
$headers .= 'From: name' . "\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>
You can also check here for more detailed explanations by W3Schools.
You can easily send the email with HTML content via PHP. Use the following script.
<?php
$to = 'user#example.com';
$subject = "Send HTML Email Using PHP";
$htmlContent = '
<html>
<body>
<h1>Send HTML Email Using PHP</h1>
<p>This is a HTMl email using PHP by CodexWorld</p>
</body>
</html>';
// Set content-type header for sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";
// Additional headers
$headers .= 'From: CodexWorld<info#codexworld.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: welcome#example.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: welcome2#example.com' . "\r\n";
// Send email
if(mail($to,$subject,$htmlContent,$headers)):
$successMsg = 'Email has sent successfully.';
else:
$errorMsg = 'Email sending fail.';
endif;
?>
Source code and live demo can be found from here - Send Beautiful HTML Email using PHP
The simplest way is probably to just use Zend Framework or any of the other frameworks like CakePHP or Symfony.
You can do it with the standard mail function too, but you'll need a bit more knowledge on how to attach pictures.
Alternatively, just host the images on a server instead of attaching them. Sending HTML mail is documented in the mail() function documentation.
Use PHPMailer.
To send HTML mail, you have to set $mail->isHTML() only, and you can set your body with HTML tags.
Here is a well written tutorial:
How to send mail using PHP
The trick is to know the content id of the image MIME part when building the HTML body part.
It boils down to making the img tag—<img src="cid:entercontentidhere" />
Kronolith.php
Look at the function buildMimeMessage for a working example.
I am trying to send an email from PHP.
The below code works fine when the From address is a Non-Gmail address.
However, when I use a Gmail address as a From Address, I don't receive the email. I have checked spam as well.
Can you tell any reason for this behaviour?
<?php
// validation expected data exists
if (!isset($_REQUEST['emailto']) ||
!isset($_REQUEST['emailsub']) ||
!isset($_REQUEST['emailfrom']) ||
!isset($_REQUEST['emailsub'])) {
exit;
}
$emailto = $_REQUEST['emailto'] ;
$emailsub = $_REQUEST['emailsub'] ;
$emailfrom = $_REQUEST['emailfrom'] ;
$emailmsg = $_REQUEST['emailmsg'] ;
// create email headers
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n";
$headers .= "From: " . $emailfrom . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: " . $emailfrom . "\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
mail($emailto, $emailsub, $emailmsg, $headers));
?>
Thanks
In order to use some GMAIL.COM email address as FROM address, you must use GMAIL.COM SMTP server to send out emails. Your best shot is to use phpMailer as #biesior already mentioned.
I have created a website and hosted on a free server from 000webhost. I am sending an activation email for the registered users.
code
$to = "$email1";
$subject = 'Account Activation';
$message = '<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div style="margin-left: 100px">
<h1 >Hello '.$username.'</h1>
<p >• This mail is for your account activation .</p></br>
<p>• Please click on the below link to get your account activated.</p></br>
<p>• Login with your username and password after activation.</p>
</div>
</body>';
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\n";
$headers .= 'From: <developer#mysite.com>' . "\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
echo "success";
The problem is that whenever I send mail with from address shown above, the mails are not sent. The problem lies in that one line where i use from address in headers because if use some other names such as 'name#example.com' (here example is some other name) the mails are sent. The problem comes whenever i use mail provided by my hosting server. Can anyone help please?
From PHP: mail() $additional_headers:
Multiple extra headers should be separated with a CRLF (\r\n)
So split headers with \r\n:
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: <developer#mysite.com>' . "\r\n";
Check your $to is working or not.
or check spam folder in the recipient's mail.
Otherwise all thing is ok.
Further clarification go func_mail_mail
Why does this send emails?
$from_admin = $_POST[EMAIL];
$message_admin = 'some html...';
mail($to_admin,"subject",$message_admin,"FROM:$from_admin");
This email looks like it came from my gmail account.
While this doesn't send the email.
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'To:' . $to . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Registration <register#myserver.org>' . "\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
When I contacted my hosting support, they said that I need to do SMTP authentication. But, then why does the first mail function work? I would be ok if its not actually using that server, but people can reply the the html email and still reach the correct account. Is there any way around this?
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How to send 100.000 emails weekly?
I am using the following script to send mail
$to = 'name#test.com' . ', ';
$to .= 'name2#test.com';
$subject = 'Green apple';
$message = 'Enquiry posted by test ';
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Green Apple <info#greenappleme.com>' . "\r\n";
if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
{
echo "mail send successfully";
}
else
echo "mail can't send";
When I use this script to some servers, the mail is going to spam. But in some servers, it is going to the Inbox as desired.
How can I prevent email going to spam?
To prevent an email going into spam, don't send with mail from PHP. Send it with SMTP from your server, you can use PHP to connect to SMTP and submit the message. You will then need to set the SPF records on your server, and reverse DNS records with whoever your IP address comes from. If you do these three things then you'll be on the whitelist and all your emails will go into the inbox everywhere, assuming you don't abuse the privilege and get put on a blacklist.
So: send using SMTP, research SPF records and reverse DNS.
You won't be able to do this unless you have a dedicated server with dedicated IP for the domain from which you are sending the email from.
Be sure to set the RETURN PATH as the optional 5th parameter to the mail() function.
if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers, '-finfo#greenappleme.com'))
TO send ur majority mail in inbox set below headers and dont use test like keywords in your subject line
$headers = "From: My site<noreply#example.com>\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: info#example.com\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: info#example.com\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: Drupal\n";
$headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";