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I have following code in header for sending HTML emails.
Code:.
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers = "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit . "\r\n";
My Issues are following
I can't send html email with the above coding, all mails are getting in plain text..
If the browser is not supporting HTML what is the alternate solution to display the message by stripping the HTML tags.
You do like this to achieve what you want
Do revert to me if there is any problemPHP Code:$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$to =$_POST['to'];
$subject ='Job Opportunity @ m`brace';
$message ='<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>your content</body>';
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
// More headers
$headers .= 'From:'.$_POST['from']."\r\n";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
developerhusain
You've got a few syntax errors in that snippet:Quote:
Originally Posted by letom
PHP Code:// missing single quote after "8bit"
// also, you're assigning instead of concatenating (so your $headers will contain *only* this last line)
$headers = "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit . "\r\n";
Also, I would highly recommend considering switching your encoding to UTF-8.PHP Code:// should be:
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit" . "\r\n";
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I assume you mean the email client, not browsers.Quote:
Originally Posted by letom
What I do is compose the email in plain text first, then, when necessary, add an HTML version )markdown is a nice way to do this).mail()is not a very good choice to send it, since it doesn't handle multipart messages conveniently. You might look at using Pear's Mail class instead.
Keep in mind that email clients are generally "behind the times" when it comes to HTML support. Also, security settings and/or user preferences prohibit much of HTML - no scripts, usually no images, and a large subset of css won't work either. HTML emails are the one area where you still have to "design like 1999" - tables, inline styles, and so forth.
Hi HusainQuote:
Originally Posted by developerhusain
Thanks for your kind advice.
Your coding seems fine.., i have also some what related to this, but it not comes to the real solution of the problem but related to that..
Regards
Tom
Dear AdrainQuote:
Originally Posted by traq
Thanks for your response and support.
Iam not using any complicated html stuffs in messages neither images nor java scripts.
only styling the layer as follows only.
The mail is sending when a user register a account, so we have no option to choose html/text message before sending, it should identify itself and display HTML message or text message properly according to the working environment.Code:<div style="border:1px solid #000000;font-family:arial">
Any solution some what related to <noscript> as noscript displays the content, if javscript is not supported, same way if html is not supported any solution to display the message properly
Why can't we use div instead of table and use inline styling in div as in the code of previous post?Quote:
HTML emails are the one area where you still have to "design like 1999" - tables, inline styles, and so forth.
Adrian didn't mean that you can't use divs at all (in fact, a simple, one column layout for the sake of adding a border and font, like you have, should be perfectly ok, although you shouldn't rely on the border or font rendering 100% in all cases as it comes down to the settings/capabilities of the email client) but his advice is correct in a broader sense. For multi-column layouts and more advanced email layouts with logo/header/footer positioning, tables are just more predictable and offer a more 'stable' structure. Web-based email clients tend to fair a little better with div/CSS layouts, but desktop applications, such as MS Outlook and Lotus Notes, are less forgiving, especially with multi-column div floats (they'll just end up stacking on top of each other). Since you can't predict how your customers are accessing emails, this is one area where you should probably play it safe with the rigid, grid-like placement of (nested) tables.
Hi Beverley
Thanks for your advice.
YES, Just for understand the difference between using div and table.Quote:
Adrian didn't mean that you can't use divs at all
But i need a solution for displaying text version of same HTML message if the working environment is not supported HTML.
Regards
Tom
That's fine - you can achieve that by using a "multipart/alternative" email which allows you to set a "boundary" that the email client uses to select from a plain text or HTML email (depending on how its setup and/or its capabilities).
Here is a tutorial that should help with that: http://webcheatsheet.com/PHP/send_em...attachment.php
And here are some tutorials/tips/best practices for setting up HTML emails:
http://24ways.org/2009/rock-solid-html-emails/
http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-to-code-html-emails
Hi Beverley,
Thanks..
Nice tutorial in first look.
My next question is for testing the output..
all modern browsers are supporting html mails, allows me to test the HTML mail, howbeit how can i test the text version of mail.
Is Lynx browser is applicable for that ?then i cannot use lynx for testing it from my desktop mail client
OR
Web developer plugin of mozilla is sufficient or any other suggestions you have ?
Moreover i will post the result of the output here.
Regards
Tom
I'm not really sure about that. My own web host only provides a really old, text-based email client on my oldest account, although my newer accounts have much prettier html email clients, so I'm lucky enough to be able to send out test emails and see both results.Quote:
all modern browsers are supporting html mails, allows me to test the HTML mail, howbeit how can i test the text version of mail.
I would imagine that there'd be a setting somewhere in most email clients that allows you to turn-off HTML emails and just display plain text though.
Here's how to do it in gmail so maybe you could just sign up for a gmail account and test there? http://webapps.stackexchange.com/que...il/43911#43911
Browsers allow you to view your HTML, yes - but again, most emails are not viewed in browsers. If you want to test your emails, it would be advisable to test them in email clients (e.g., Thunderbird or Outlook), not in web browsers.Quote:
Originally Posted by letom
Testing text-only emails is easy: the message will look the same as it does in your plain text editor.
Adrain,Quote:
Originally Posted by traq
Thanks.. under what circumstances the text email contains the coding of html as follows
I think keeping two separate versions of mail underCode:<table><tr><td>Name</td><td>Jo</td></table>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\n
will give an solution for that and it guarantees the result will produced correctly in all environments by stripping unwanted tags as table ?
Assuming that your messages are correctly formatted and you use the multipart/alternative boundaries properly, the email client will choose which part to display (HTML or plain text, based on its default and/or user settings), and ignore/set aside the other.Quote:
Originally Posted by letom
Whether any particular email client will display your HTML "correctly" (i.e., as you expect it to) is a separate issue, however. It will almost certainly look different than it does in the browser (or even any other email client). Getting this "right" is a matter of using the most basic HTML you can, with the most outdated CSS, followed by lots of testing.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Your text email should not contain HTML markup at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by letom
This will not happen - neither theQuote:
Originally Posted by letom
mail()function nor any email client will rewrite your message.
Hi Adrain
Thanks for your advice.. I suggest the phpmailer or swift mailer is the right solution for this.
Iam putting both plaintext and html in message ,Quote:
under what circumstances the text email contains the coding of html as follows
Code:
<table><tr><td>Name</td><td>Jo</td></table>
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Your text email should not contain HTML markup at all.
My doubt is whether some email clients will display broken HTML part / HTML coding instead of the HTML design ?
FYI iam using inline and internal style sheets only with tables..
Unfortunately, that's not very easy to answer. There are many, many email clients, as well as different versions of each, and almost all of them handle *something* differently. Designing html emails is actually a very tedious task because of this; you simply need to decide which clients are important to you to support and then go test your email in all of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by letom
In general, you'll be "okay" in most clients as long as you stick to markup that's been around for the last ten years.
You have suggestions for libraries other than phpmailer