need help with form

**leo10** · 01-08-2009, 09:30 AM

I made a form to send emails with but i can't get it to make email clients understand theres html in the email

code:

Code:

<?php
function spamcheck($field)
  {
  //filter_var() sanitizes the e-mail 
  //address using FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL
  $field=filter_var($field, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);
  
  //filter_var() validates the e-mail
  //address using FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL
  if(filter_var($field, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
    {
    return TRUE;
    }
  else
    {
    return FALSE;
    }
  }

if (isset($_REQUEST['email']))
  {//if "email" is filled out, proceed

  //check if the email address is invalid
  $mailcheck = spamcheck($_REQUEST['email']);
  if ($mailcheck==FALSE)
    {
    echo "Invalid input";
    }
  else
    {//send email
    $name = $_REQUEST['name'] ;
    $email = $_REQUEST['email'] ; 
    $to = $_REQUEST['to'] ; 
    $subject = $_REQUEST['subject'] ;
    $message = $_REQUEST['message'] ;
    mail(
    "$to", 
    "Subject: $subject",
    $message="<html><body>".$_POST['message_html']."</body></html>", "From: $email" );
    echo "Thank you for using our mail form $name";
    }
  }
else
  {//if "email" is not filled out, display the form
  echo 
  "
  <script language='javascript1.2'>
   // attach the editor to the textarea with the identifier 'textarea1'.
   WYSIWYG.attach('mailtext');
  </script>
  
  <form method='post' action=''>
  Name:   <input name='name' type='text' /><br /><br />
  Email:   <input name='email' type='text' /><br /><br />
  To:   <input name='to' type='text' /><br /><br />
  Subject:   <input name='subject' type='text' /><br /><br />
  Message:<br />
  <textarea id='mailtext' name='message_html' style='height: 170px; width: 475px;'>
  </textarea>  
  <br />
  <input type='submit' value='Send' />
  </form>";
  }
?>

**rangana** · 01-08-2009, 11:42 AM

Try to set the proper headers for html and add as a fourth argument to the mail() method.

This part:

PHP Code:


 mail(
    "$to", 
    "Subject: $subject",
    $message="<html><body>".$_POST['message_html']."</body></html>", "From: $email" );

..should be:

PHP Code:


$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: {$email}" . "\r\n"; // Construct headers
mail(
    "$to", 
    "Subject: $subject",
    $message="<html><body>".$_POST['message_html']."</body></html>",$headers);

Hope that helps.

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