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    Sending HTML email...

    I'm nearing my wits end on this...

    I have a page setup to send an html email of a report that is generated by a given date. This form works great, exactly as expected. Now I am trying to create a new form to send a simple html email to someone and I'm being stymied at every turn...

    Here's the code of the page that works (the addresses have been changed to protect the innocent):
    PHP Code:
    <?PHP

    if(isset($_POST["email"])){$to=$_POST["email"];}
    if(isset(    $_POST["body"])){$body=$_POST["body"];}
    if(isset(    $_POST["date"])){$date=$_POST["date"];}

    $body=strip_tags($body, '<table><tr><td><p><br><div>');
    $subject = "Sales report for $date";
    $random_hash = md5(date('r', time()));
    $headers = "From: example@example.com\r\nReply-To: example@example.com\r\nContent-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\"";
    ob_start();
    ?>
    --PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?> 
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

    Your email does not support HTML formatted email.

    --PHP-alt-<?PHP echo $random_hash; ?> 
    Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

    <html>
    <body>
    <?PHP echo $body;?>
    </body>
    </html>

    --PHP-alt-<?PHP echo $random_hash; ?>--
    <?PHP
    $message     = ob_get_clean();
    mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
    echo     "Message has been sent. Please use the back button on your browser to return to the report.";
    ?>
    The $body is a table that is pulled from the report page. Now, I've replaced the <?PHP echo $body;?> line with something simple like <p>Hello world</p> and the email still sends fine. HOWEVER, when I try to create a new email page, I get nothing but the subject! Here's what I'm trying:
    PHP Code:
    <?PHP
    $to    ="my@email.com";
    $subject = "Test email";
    $random_hash = md5(date('r', time()));
    $headers = "From: example@example.com\r\nReply-To: example@example.com\r\nContent-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\"";
    ob_start();
    ?>
    --PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

    Your email does not support HTML formatted email.

    --PHP-alt-<?PHP echo $random_hash; ?>
    Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

    <html>
    <body>
    <p>Hello, world!</p>
    </body>
    </html>

    --PHP-alt-<?PHP echo $random_hash; ?>--
    <?PHP
    $message     = ob_get_clean();
    mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );
    echo     $message;
    ?>
    For some reason, this doesn't work! I copied the code from the above page and the only changes I made was to remove references to $body and set the $to variable.

    Please help. I'm about to drop-kick my web server...

    One more ridiculous question... Is there somewhere you need to authorize a page to send email? I don't remember ever having to do that... Or would the name of the file have anything to do with it? Or the directory in which it's stored?
    bryceowen, April 8th, 2009 01:21 PM
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    Why use an output buffer? Follow the HTML example here: PHP: mail - Manual
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    Well, I used the output buffer because that's what worked the first time I tried to get PHP to send HTML email. (Refer to: PHP: Sending Email (Text/HTML/Attachments))

    I'm at a loss as to why it doesn't work when I copy the EXACT SAME code into another file and load it...

    I did go back and try it the way it says in the manual and I finally got it to send, but I'd still like the multi-part option to work right. Some of the folks who get these messages read them on their smartphones and they don't display HTML email...
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    O.K. I figured out how to get the multi-part done. Just posting here for future use.

    I'm still not able to get it to work the way my original page works, but this accomplishes the same thing.
    PHP Code:
    $random_hash=md5(date('r',time()));
    $subject="Subject goes here.";
    $to="example@example.com";
    $headers="From: example@example.com\r\nReply-To: example@example.com\r\nContent-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\"";

    $message='
    --PHP-alt-'    .$random_hash.'
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

    Simple, plain-text message goes here.

    --PHP-alt-'    .$random_hash.'
    Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

    <html>
    <head>
    <style type="text/css">
    p{font-weight:bold;text-align:center;}
    </style>
    </head>
    <body>
    <p>Fancy HTML message would go here.</p>
    </body>
    </html>

    --PHP-alt-'    .$random_hash.'--';
    mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers); 
    bryceowen, April 8th, 2009 07:28 PM
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