I have a php file that I am trying to send the output in a email using the php mail function (PHPMailer is not an option as the server I am working restricts their SMTP server). The code for the mail function is
$to = "xxx#example.com";
$subject = "Outdoor Grill Service Request";
ob_start();
require 'grill-form.php';
$body = ob_get_clean();
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers = "From: xxx#example.com\n";
mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
echo "Mail sent to $to";
grill-form.php is a php file that contains a html file that has tables that are populated with php variable from a form. This worked perfectly using PHPMailer but once I migrated over to standard php mail is got "screwy".
The issue I am running into is when the email sends I am getting raw HTML code and not the output of the grill-form.php (a styled table with values). I have little knowledge with the php mail function so I might be missing something stupid.
Was wondering what I am doing wrong. Thank you in advance for you help you people are the best.
Assuming that's your actual code, you're overwriting the $headers variable with the third declaration, not appending to what you have. The Content-type header is never making it in.
PHPMailer does support SMTP, by the way--what exactly do you mean by "restricts their SMTP server"? (Here's an example: http://phpmailer.worxware.com/index.php?pg=examplebsmtp)
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I was testing out my mail configuration. First I did a normal mail() call in a separate .php file. That worked fine. Then I copied the exact same code inside a route callback in Laravel 4 and now it doesn't work. How is that possible?
This is the code that works:
$from_add = "name#your-web-site.com";
$to_add = "someone#gmail.com"; //<-- put your yahoo/gmail email address here
$subject = "Test Subject";
$message = "Test Message";
$headers = "From: $from_add \r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $from_add \r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: $from_add\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP \r\n";
mail($to_add,$subject,$message,$headers);
The adresses don't matter because I am testing with Test Mail Server Tool
When working with Laravel 4, it's always advisable to use the built-in Mail function.
This has a couple of advantages I wouldn't want to miss:
You can easily test mail features by setting the pretend option to true
It will allow you to send HTML mails using Blade views
You can choose which way your mails should be sent depending on your server config (sendmail, phpMailer)
You can queue mails so they will be sent later when there's less server load
You can do stuff after mail delivery in a callback function
If you still insist on using the php mail() function, set your driver in app/config/mail.php to "mail".
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Currently I'm writing a web interface which is full of data. I would like to export this data as an e-mail template, so you can edit the e-mail afterwards.
Is there a format such as *.oft, which can be read by all email programs?
I know that there is such a function in HTML (<a href="mailto:[...]">). Since the e-mail text is very long and I want to attach files, this doesn't seems to be a good solution.
Can someone help me?
There's no such format as you're looking for. The internet engineers who design email protocols and format concern themselves with what goes out over the network, but not with what's internal to the machine. Email is highly interoperable when sending and receiving messages as a result, but there's no analogous standards body for internal API's. Sometimes there are de facto standards that arise from a imitating the behavior of popular piece of software, but that hasn't happened for the email feature you're looking for.
Maybe you mean .EML files? I remember that this file can be opened with nearly all e-mail clients such as Outlook, Thunderbird etc.
As far as I can tell you can go one of two ways:
1 - Use a prebuilt solution such as the one by these guys at postageapp.com their API looks pretty simple and does everything you want to achieve.
2 - More time consuming, but you can create your own templete using PHP. I would go for something along these lines. This is a very simple way of doing it. You could write your own CSS in the head and go nuts. Just remember that tables are king when it comes to HTML email :) Once the template has been written, you could just pass through the $content to fill it....
sender.php
<?php
$email = "Hello, \n";
$email.= "Very <strong>impressed</strong> with your email! \n\n";
$email.= "Faithfully\n";
$email.= "Mr Example\n";
$to = "me#me.me"; // <-- Set this as yours for testing...
$from = "someone#nice.me";
$subject = "An email";
$headers = "From: Someone nice <" . $from . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ". $from . "\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";
$message = '<html><body>';
$message .= nl2br($email); // <---- if your email contains newline characters - it will convert them to <br />
$message .= '<br />www.example.com';
$message .= "</body></html>";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
// ADD LOTS OF PROTECTION IF NOT HARD CODING :)
?>
To extend this - if you for example use Gmail, then you could use Google's SMTP to send it - so that the email wouldn't say 'Sent on behalf of'.
Just create a email using HTML without CSS. Any data or binary can be passed through PHP and then emailed to the recipient.
To get you started, Create a file using fopen();. PHP has other functions that would allow you to edit, open, search&replace and even convert a file to a format of your choice. This is equivalent to a .oft file if not better, because all emails are be sent in text or a html equivalent regardless of the email client.
If you'd would like some more info on how to create this, let me know.
I have used used the PHP Language for Sending the email and HTML tags are not rendering in the gmail account sometimes.I have used Content Type as - charset="iso-8859-1" I have attached the image.
And also am receiving the Message ID, which should not be come in the mail.
I don't recommend/use php built in mail() function to send and receive emails. Use php open source libraries like PHPMailer and SwiftMailer. I have been using PHPMailer after facing many issues when using mail() alone. Very easy to implement and has lots of features. You don't have to spend your valuable time for email sending related development.
http://phpmailer.worxware.com/
http://swiftmailer.org/
If the HTML isn't rendering, that usually means the headers weren't set properly.
Try this:
<?php
//change this to your email.
$to = "m#m.com";
$from = "m#m.com";
$subject = "This is HTML email";
$message = "
<b>htmlemail....</b> <br>
<a href='http://www.google.com'>Google</a>";
// To send the HTML mail we need to set the Content-type header.
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0rn";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1rn";
$headers .= "From: $from\r\n";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
echo "Message sent..";
?>
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I am trying to send html email using php. it is working fine on gmail, yahoo etc. but on my cpanel (Horde Email Client) the text is comming as an attachment and it is not showing any body.
These are the headers i am using
$headers = "From: " ."XYZ<noRelpy#xxx.com>" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ". "noRelpy#xxx.com" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=us-ascii" . "\r\n";
I have also tried changing the charset to iso-8859-1 but still no sucess
Sending emails is hard, and fraught with serious security problems (mostly related to spam). It takes years to write code that sends email reliably.
Instead of trying to do it yourself, this is a place where a third party library makes sense.
We have been using PHPMailer for years: http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/
It is difficult to write custom code that sends HTML e-mail, especially ones with embedded images or attachments. I have written a class to do this, but once you do, you realise there are a bunch of other features you need.
Using a third-party library really is a better choice here if your core product is not a mailing library. PHPMailer is good, another good option is
swiftmailer
Good luck!
I've never done html e-mail before, I've just set up php mail using http://www.postmarkapp.com
I was wondering how I would go about sending php mail as html?
Does anybody have any previews of a php page sending html e-mail I can look at to get the jist of how it works?
Currently I'm just putting text into a variable and sending it as a message, how is it done for html?
Regards
Do you still want to use Postmark to send emails?
In Postmark, you set the TextBody property to the text version of your message, and the HtmlBody property to the html version of it. It is good practice to always include both. Depending on whether your user's email client supports HTML or not, the appropriate message form is rendered. Read more on this here.
Edit: Added an example. I generally like splitting my string into separate lines so that I can indent it nicely like a real HTML file. Of course, if you used templates, that would make it so much better.
$htmlBody = "
<html>
<body>
Thank you for using our app!<br />
- Super Awesome App Team
</body>
</html>
";
http://phpmailer.worxware.com/
This is the best class I've found to send mail with PHP. It allows HTML formatting with alternate plain text part, as well as attachments. It also seems to filter out spam quite well when used for online forms.
Put the html code inside the variable where you need as you are doing while creating web pages and set the mail header to text/html.
$headers.= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers.= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers.= "From: eaxfd#gmail.com \r\n";
$headers.= "Reply-To: eaxfd#gmail.com \r\n";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
You just have to include html headers in your call to the mail() function:
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);