What language is used to insert hyperlinks into an MMS message?
I'm sending MMS messages to my cellphone, from my computer, but don't know how to include a link.
I'm using php to send emails to the MMS service. Images and plain text show up just fine.
You should probably just include the link in plaintext. However, there is another way detailed here:
http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?193656-Invoking-Browser-from-MMS
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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 sending our HTML newsletters with an image on each email that help us know if a person actually received that newsletter.
I just add in the HTML body of the email a img tag like that:
<img src="https://www.example.com/read/BASE64URLENCODED_DATA" />
BASE64URLENCODED_DATA is something that I can read on server when the request arrives to know the email address that downloaded that image. We receive the request to download that fake image, we save the data and return some headers to show a transparent image of 1x1 px.
The problem is that usually this works for no more than the 10% of the total emails sent on each newsletter. This means that most of the email clients that receive our newsletter don't permit the downloading of images (showing the classic message "If you want to download attached images click here...").
Is there any way to force an email client to make a remote request like that?
We need to produce more realistic statistics for our newsletters but we can't find a way to force this remote requests or fake images download.
Thank you.
A longer answer - there may be ways how you can trick some e-mail clients, but this will work only on a particular client. There are lots of different clients out there. Maybe you find a way of tricking Oultook, but no guarantee that it works for Google Mail or other web mail service. Then there is Roundcube, Squirrelmail, Horde and other web clients. Then the mobile devices come in - iPhone/iPad mail client, Android mail clients, Outlook mobile.. No, you don't want to do this.
And even if you find a way of tricking all those programs (which I highly doubt), most likely your message will be malformatted and most spam filters will catch it as spam.
I manage a live music venue's newsletter and the show listings/calendar on the main site are generated using PHP. Is there a way to generate content in newsletters via php?
Example, I create the newsletter.php file, upload the code to our newsletter service provider, and when someone opens the message, the latest listings are available in their email.
As of now, I'm only seeing a portion of the php code where I'd like to see the calendar...
You can generate the content of an e-mail with any scripting language, but only before sending it. Once the e-mail has been sent, it has to be in a format that e-mail clients understand (such as plain text or HTML).
It's also very easy to send email with php, with the mail function.
You could generate the email from your php template, and if it looks how you want it to, click a button and send that email to the people on your mailing list.
It sounds like you have a newsletter-delivery service in place, but this is another option.
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).