Encoding PHP to send mails in other languege - php

Question

I want to encode my php sending form in my language.
What is wrong with the code? I have added the content-type in the $headers at the end... It is not the whole file, there is also HTML after the PHP, but did not let me to post it
<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
// EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
$email_to = "gancho_lambev#abv.bg";
$email_subject = "Contact Form...";
function died($error) {
// your error code can go here
echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form your submitted. ";
echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
echo $error."<br /><br />";
echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
die();
}
// validation expected data exists
if(!isset($_POST['name']) ||
!isset($_POST['email']) ||
!isset($_POST['comments'])) {
died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form your submitted.');
}
$name = $_POST['name']; // required
$email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
$comments = $_POST['comments']; // required
function clean_string($string) {
$bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
}
$email_message .= "Name: ".clean_string($name)."\n";
$email_message .= "Email: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
$email_message .= "Comments: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";
// create email headers
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251' . "\r\n";
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
#mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers); ;}
?>

Answer 1

For sending mails in different language, you can just change the charset:
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
And be sure the page is encoded as UTF-8 and that if a database is used, the table ( or whole db ) is in "UTF-8 unicode general"
With UTF-8 you can write the characters as they appear, don't use entities.
Do you mean something like this. Hope it helps

Answer 2

Try using a 3rd party library, like phpmailer:
Example: http://phpmailer.worxware.com/index.php?pg=exampleamail
Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer/files/phpmailer%20for%20php5_6/PHPMailer%20v5.1/
Don't forget to set the charset, like this:
<?php
require_once '../class.phpmailer.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer(true); //defaults to using php "mail()"; the true param means it will throw exceptions on errors, which we need to catch
$mail->CharSet = 'utf-8';
try {
$mail->AddReplyTo('name#yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$mail->AddAddress('whoto#otherdomain.com', 'John Doe');
$mail->SetFrom('name#yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$mail->AddReplyTo('name#yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
$mail->Subject = 'PHPMailer Test Subject via mail(), advanced';
$mail->AltBody = 'To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!'; // optional - MsgHTML will create an alternate automatically
$mail->MsgHTML(file_get_contents('contents.html'));
$mail->AddAttachment('images/phpmailer.gif'); // attachment
$mail->AddAttachment('images/phpmailer_mini.gif'); // attachment
$mail->Send();
echo "Message Sent OK\n";
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
echo $e->errorMessage(); //Pretty error messages from PHPMailer
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage(); //Boring error messages from anything else!
}
?>

Answer 3

Try the following:
Set the collation of your database/ tables/ rows to UTF-8. UTF8_general_ci should do.
Set the connection between MySQL and PHP to UTF-8. (By executing the query SET NAMES 'utf8' after connecting or by setting the default connection encoding).
Try sending the content-type header with PHP: header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");.