HTML emails using PHP
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Hello. I'm kinda have to develop my sister's website and currently she asks me to send a message to registered emails (from database). But the problem is that I can't manage to send HTML code to my email...
First I tried the PHP mail() function but it didn't really work out. Then I downloaded PHPMailer v5.1 and tried using it. Same.
The GMAIL gets everything it's supposed to get but it doesn't display as it should.
Here is the code:
// s[] - subject array
// m[] - messages array
// keys of each array mean language (like 'en')
$mail = new PHPMailer();
$mail->AddReplyTo("info@web.com","web.com");
$mail->SetFrom('info@web.com', 'web.com');
$mail->IsHTML(true);
foreach($m as $key => $value){
$mail->Subject = $s[$key];
$result = mysql_query("SELECT id, email FROM emails WHERE status = '2' AND language = '{$key}'", $con);
while($user = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_NUM)){
$l = '...';
$mail->AddAddress($user[1], '');
$mail->MsgHTML($l);
$mail->Send();
}
}
The headers GMAIL gets say that content type is multipart/alternative and then 2 other - plain and html. It's normal so far.
When I open the mail, it prints the HTML version but with tags/attributes removed.
Is there something I should send in the header to get HTML fully working? -
May I ask what's the point of trying sending from localhost? I've got a form on the server I copy the HTML code to and then it does what the script does... (the one I posted) It surely does mess with the HTML. It gets what is has to get but when it has to echo it, it does it after some kind of filter.
I would understand why it would disable styles but I hoped there is anything to add to the header (if it was included in protocol).
P.S. Is there any chance to achieve a different result if used SMTP or something? Maybe it filters PHPMailer as a potential danger or something... I'll try this out after waking up. -
The point of sending from localhost would be it's using a different server. I think I had a retarded moment and thought you were sending from gmail.
I try using SMTP just for kicks. PHPMailer is a pretty good class and I can't say I have run into trouble using it in the past. Very odd it's not passing the correct content type.
Have you tried sending the body using $mail->Body = $l; ?Hello World! -
Actually MsgHTML does everything it should do. Here are 2 lines from it:
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$this->IsHTML(true);
$this->Body = $message;
...
so even my call to IsHTML() is kinda useless.
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OK, now I'm pretty sure that GMAIL doesn't want to show the HTMLed emails and that's pretty much all about that. Although, I accidentally noticed that when I submit <a> tags, my PHP script receives it width " added after attribute= and \ added before " I added. So... it looks like this:
I copy: <a href="http://web.com/" target="_blank">www.web.com</a>
PHP receives: <a href="\"http://web.com/"\" target="\"_blank"\">www.web.com</a>
If I copy without " - it adds it and everything works just fine. And that's before sending. Like this:
$m['...'] = $_POST['msg_...'];
foreach($m as $key=>$value)
echo $value;
WTF?! Does it mean that the server, the website is hosted in, uses some sucky security scripts?
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