I have a php script that i use to send mails to lists of emails in my database, but the mail appears in text form only. Now i want my subscribers to get their mails in HTML format.
Please help me out.
topsege2007
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Thanks, I tried it but i still get the mail in full-text format but i want my mails to appear in HTML format. Can u help out, this is the code i used.
<?php
require_once "Mail.php";
error_reporting(E_ALL - (E_NOTICE + E_WARNING));
$form_string= <<<EOFORM
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Send a Newsletter</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<h2>Send Newsletter</h2>
<form method="POST" action="$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]">
<P><strong>Subject:</strong><br>
<input type="text" name="subject" size=30></p>
<P><strong>Mail Body:</strong><br>
<textarea name="message" cols=50 rows=10 wrap=virtual></textarea>
<input type="hidden" name="op" value="send">
<p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send Now"></p>
</FORM>
</BODY> </HTML>
EOFORM;
$from = "info@seapmicrofinance.org";
$subject = stripslashes($_POST['subject']);
$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
<table bgcolor=#EEEEEE>
<tr>
<th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';
$username = "USERNAME";
$password = "PASSWORD";
$host = "smtp.seapmicrofinance.org"; // replace this with your domain's webmail address, for example "smtp.YourDomain.com"
if ($_POST[op] != "send") {
//haven't seen the form, so show it
echo $form_string;
} else if ($_POST[op] == "send") {
//want to send form, so check for required fields
if (($_POST[subject] =="") || ($_POST[message] == "")) {
header("Location: mailing_script2.php");
exit;
}
//connect to database
$conn = mysql_connect("XpertProCombined", "gbenga", "micrBANK1@")
or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("seap?users",$conn) or die('Connection Failed!');
//get emails from subscribers list
$sql = "select user_email from users";
$result = mysql_query($sql,$conn) or die(mysql_error());
//create a From: mailheader
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: SEAP Microfinance <info@seapmicrofinance.org>";
//loop through results and send mail
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
set_time_limit(0);
$email = $row['user_email'];
$headers = array ('From' => $from, 'To' => $email, 'Subject' => $subject);
$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp', array ('host' => $host, 'auth' => true, 'username' => $username, 'password' => $password));
$mail = $smtp->send($email, $headers, $message);
echo "newsletter sent to: $email<br>";
}
if (PEAR::isError($mail))
{
echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
}
}
}
?>
cereal
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You are using PEAR Mail not the built-in function mail() so you need to read this:
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail-mime.example.php
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