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I couldnt find any documentation or example on how to send HTML content from a php script hosted on GAE using mail-api.
My challenge is to send a very basic email with a background color or image, a table to tab data, and a header image (all embeded)
Could anybody reply with this issue please ? If changes must be done on yaml don't forget to mention it please ?
While not (yet) documented, you can use the standard mail() function to send emails on App Engine. See https://css-tricks.com/sending-nice-html-email-with-php/ for an example on how to send HTML emails.
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I recently ran into the problem where I found out that Apple does not allow developers to send an email directly from code without user interaction. This causes some difficulties on my app as I need a code generated email which is in HTML format to be sent from my website server to myself, a third party and the user of the app. I have a few questions regarding this:
Is it acceptable to use a PHP script to send the emails for me by calling the script from code?
Will doing it this way have my app rejected from app store as I have read that bypassing user interaction in this regard will have the app rejected?
There are tons of apps on my iOS device that send emails without me having to interact except for pressing a "submit" button or similar. How are these apps doing it?
Basically, I also need the client to just press a button and 3 emails are sent in HTML format. The client is aware of an email being sent, but I need it in HTML format without the mail client showing up. I have the same app developed on Android and if I cannot have the same flow on Apple devices it kind of breaks look from android to ios. I know this is possible as I have apps on my phone that does it. My question is, are they using PHP scripts? If so, I can do that, but I want to be sure that my app will not be rejected from App Store.
You can use the API from your webserver for this. If you have for example an API path
/mail
You can send all the relevant information in as POST paramaters (e.g. "subject" : 'test mail') and from your webserver send the email with a mail function.
This is perfectly acceptable.
You can attach this webserver call to a UIButton to make it user-interactable:
#IBAction func mailToUser(sender: UIButton) {
// POST request to /mail with relevant information
}
I want to add an image in the mail headers just like Youtube has when I receive an email from them. I'm simply using the php mail function to send emails, but I can't figure out how to implement this. Am I thinking it wrong?
Here is the final result I want
Thanks for your time,
Felix
You can pass HTML as body in your email.
The only problem is that outlook does not support it.
But all you have to do is build your email body in html and send it using PHP.
For the header it looks more like an tag or something, maybe it's not send via PHP. you could check out software like mailchimp.
P.S. make sure your image is hosting somewhere because you can't access it localy.
I am integrating AWS with my php website. I know how to send a simple text email to user.
But I want to send something formatted and images in that like this.
How can i send something like this using AWS(Amazon Web Service) ?
Is there documentation available on how to send this kind of an email?
Any Help would be appreciated.
Thanks In Advance.
I have done it using tables.
We can not use internal or external CSS in email. We can use the inline CSS. But in html email it's best to use tables.
Well, I'm trying to create a newsletter, that will send emails to users in a database. The newsletter itself would draw "events" and other activities from a database. Whats the best way to take that list, and put them in an email? I was thinking about putting them into an html page, then sending an html email, but not all emails support html(like school email). What would your guys recommend? Could you point me to some good resources?
Also, this is for a school project, so I cant use any open source type stuff, unfortunately :(
You are correct in your assumption that if you are creating html newsletters, you will also have to do a text based version for clients that don't support html or ones that ask to have e-mail be sent only in text. You will need to make sure your code sends both versions to recipients. You could also ask the recipients for their preference and send them the specific version that they requested.
For html e-mail it is highly recommended to read the following two articles by CampaignMonitor (they specialize in e-mail marketing sofware):
HTML E-mail Design Guidelines
Guide to CSS support in email
clients
Note that I am assuming you are asking for help with the actual construction of the html for the email not the code needed to create and send the newsletter.
Good luck with your project.
==== UPDATE ====
So it seems that you actually need help in developing this project. Since this is a homework, I will provide some general advice that should steer you in the correct direction and get you started on the project. Then, if you have any specific problems with your code, you can ask about them on Stackoverflow.
There is really two things that need to be done here:
In PHP, dynamically contruct a variable that contains the html or text versions of the e-mail that needs to be sent.
Loop through your contact list and e-mail the contents of that variable.
Sending E-mail
I will start with the sending e-mail portion, because the links provide bellow also show you how to construct the message. Also, in your comment you said you already know how to contruct an html from a database. The following links show you two ways to send e-mail. You can either use the Mail function that comes with PHP or download the PEAR_Mail package. If you are allowed to use additional libraries and want to send html e-mail, I would recommend using the PEAR_Mail, because it makes things much easier if you want to send a both an html and text version of an e-mail together.
Note: To send an e-mail you will need to use some sort of mail server. If you are using Windows, you can install the SMTP service that comes with IIS or you can use an external smtp service such as google to send your e-mails.
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ref_mail.asp
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
http://www.webcheatsheet.com/php/send_email_text_html_attachment.php
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail.php
http://pear.php.net/package/Mail_Mime/docs
Construct E-mail
The complexity here will depend on whether you just want a plain text e-mail or html. For either case you will need to read the event data from your database and add it to the message that you want to send.
Some Seudocode:
Loop through datarows
message = DataRow[EventDate] + " " + DataRow[EventName] + "\n"
Loop through recipients
mail message
Hopefully this gives you a start. I would recommend getting php to send out an e-mail of a static html or text first. Once you have that code working you can start working on adding the functionality of reading event info from a database and sending it out.
Hope this helps.
I have a form, which gathers some Information of my visitor, and when they submit the Information, it will send it to my desired email. now I need another input "file" that they can even attach their photo and send along with it to my email not on my server, I have no Idea how can I do that, I would appreciate any helps.
phpmailer is a great email engine. it has many features one of which includes sending attachments. i would give this example a look, its pretty much exactly what you are trying to do.
http://zainal.wordpress.com/2007/01/10/sending-email-attachments-in-php-using-phpmailer-class/
Check out PEAR Mail_Mime for building the e-mail with attachments and optionally PEAR Mail for sending it.
Here's a link to show you how to do the file input:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html
When you send the email, you'll have to send the file as an attachment. This link gives the idea:
http://www.webcheatsheet.com/PHP/send_email_text_html_attachment.php#attachment
(DISCLAIMER: I haven't coded PHP for a few years, so I don't know if this is the best way to do it. I just searched Google and skimmed the first link that came up).