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cottoneye1256

07-27-2007, 04:30 AM

I set up an form mailer which emails data to a company that a customer fills out, that works fine.
What I want is change the way the email looks so it's not so plain
ex: change the size and color of fonts of the data, add background color, add company logo....

below is the code I wrote that emails customers data, from, to, subject info:

<?php
//start building the mail string
$msg .="A free estimate has been requested from www.mywebsite.com\n\n";
$msg2 .="Thank you for requesting a free estimate. A specialist will contact you within 24 hrs.\n\n";
$msg2 .="You are receiving this email because you signed up for a free pest estimate from www.mywebsite.com.\n";
$msg2 .="Please do not reply to this e-mail. This message came from an automated mailbox.\n\n";
$msg2 .="Ace Plumbing (555)555-555\n\n";
$msg .= "FIRST NAME: $_POST[name]\n";
$msg .= "LAST NAME: $_POST[last]\n";
$msg .= "ADDRESS: $_POST[address]\n";
$msg .= "ADDRESS 2: $_POST[address2]\n";
$msg .= "CITY: $_POST[city]\n";
$msg .= "ZIP CODE: $_POST[zip]\n";
$msg .= "HOME PHONE: $_POST[homefone]\n";
$msg .= "ALTERNATE PHONE: $_POST[altfone]\n";
$msg .= "E-MAIL: $_POST[email]\n";
$msg .= "PREFERRED CONTACT: $_POST[preferred_contact]\n";
$msg .= "PROBLEM: $_POST[stateDropDown]\n";
$msg .= "MESSAGE: $_POST[message]\n";
$msg .= "NOTIFIED ABOUT FUTURE OFFERS: $_POST[notify_future_offers]\n";
$msg .= "\n";

//set up the mail
$recipient = "company@name.com";
$recipient2 = "$_POST[email]";
$subject = "Free Estimate Requested";
$mailheaders = "From: ace-plumbing.com<estimate@ace.com> \n";
$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $_POST[email]\n\n";

//send the mail
mail($recipient, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
mail($recipient2, $subject, $msg2, $mailheaders);
//end of PHP code
?>

thank you

Cota

07-27-2007, 04:47 AM

Change the headers to reflect html email and do some html formatting.

cottoneye1256

07-27-2007, 09:11 PM

I know who to write html but how do you set up the mailer so that it sends the changes I want.
If I just write the codes it displays it on the current page.

What I don't know is the special PHP codes that go before the html code.
any way you could give one example such as font colors

thank you

Cota

07-28-2007, 03:03 AM

add this to your mail header

$mailheaders = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$mailheaders .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

cottoneye1256

07-30-2007, 02:05 AM

thanks but I didn't know where to put the $mailheader code?? and the html code? do I put any special codes in front of html? I kept getting errors where ever I put it so I kind of rewrote another set of codes.

Now how do I insert this variable into the html code so that the word "E-MAIL" is one color and the displayed email address is bold.
The variable $_POST[email] is an email address that someone would submit in a mail form.

<?php
// multiple recipients
$to = 'aidan@example.com' . ', '; // note the comma
$to .= 'wez@example.com';

// subject
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
<table>
<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>

INSERT THE VARIABLE HERE..........E-MAIL: $_POST[email]

</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

thanks again
sorry for being a P.I.A. (pain in azz)

Cota

07-30-2007, 02:14 AM

<?php
// multiple recipients
$to = 'aidan@example.com' . ', '; // note the comma
$to .= 'wez@example.com';

// subject
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
'.$_POST[email].'
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

cottoneye1256

07-30-2007, 02:40 AM

Thank you !!!!
I racked my brains out trying to figure it out on my own w/o asking for help.
and all it was this code before and after '.
thanks alot

Cota

07-30-2007, 02:44 AM

in PHP the "." is a way to concat (combine) strings.

cottoneye1256

08-02-2007, 02:33 AM

sorry but I have one more prob...
I want to pass on the date and time the form was filled out and include it in the email.

I tried $date_time = date("m/d/y G.i:s", $time); but got an err message.

I also inserted this line with the other code but that didn't work either.
<font size="2" color="#414141" face="times new roman">DATE/TIME SERVICE CALL LOGGED:*</font><b> '.$_POST[date_time].'</b><br>

I need to some how assign a variable so it will display this in the email sent out to us:
DATE/TIME SERVICE CALL LOGGED: 08/01/07 17.21:02

I believe it should be near the mail function.

also...this works on html but not in the email
<?php
$time = time();
print "DATE/TIME SERVICE CALL LOGGED:*";
print date("m/d/y G.i:s", $time);
print "<br>"
?>

thanks again

Cota

08-02-2007, 03:40 AM

"print" sends it to the screen. Which you arent doing. You need to put that in the message body like the rest of it.

$time = time();
$message .= "DATE/TIME SERVICE CALL LOGGED: ";
$message .= date("m/d/y G.i:s", $time);
$message .= "<br>"

cottoneye1256

08-02-2007, 01:32 PM

your going to kill me but I used a diff method of $message
I'm not using it in every line, just in the beginning and end.
I get stumped when I try to display the date and time after the birthday line within the code below.

If I really have to use $message in every line then that bring me back to my first question, how do I send an email so that it contains html and I can control the interface when sent, such as:
<tr><td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>'.$_POSTemail].' </tr>
If I put $message = <tr><td>Joe</td><td> It display it as text.

I tried different ways of inserting the date but I still errors parse error, unexpected '<'

Also when I tried out the time code I showed you the time is off by -3 hrs

sorry to bug you like this
thanks

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Joe</td><td>3rd</td><td>August</td><td>1970</td>
'.$_POST[email].'
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';

Cota

08-03-2007, 02:08 AM

not exactly sure where you want the date inserted, but here's an example

<?php

$time = time();

// multiple recipients
$to = 'aidan@example.com' . ', '; // note the comma
$to .= 'wez@example.com';

// subject
$subject = 'Birthday Reminders for August';

// message
$message = '
<html>
<head>
<title>Birthday Reminders for August</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Here are the birthdays upcoming in August!</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Person</th><th>Day</th><th>Month</th><th>Year</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Joe</td><td>'.date("m/d/y G.i:s", $time).' </td>
'.$_POST[email].'
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sally</td><td>17th</td><td>August</td><td>1973</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
';

// To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";

// Mail it
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

cottoneye1256

08-03-2007, 02:20 AM

Thanks again
I tried your example earlier only I put $time = time(); in the message area thats where I goofed

works great thanks

cottoneye1256

08-03-2007, 02:35 AM

NEVER MIND..it just clicked as to why...
The server I'm using is Godaddy which is located Arizona (MST) 3 hrs behind.

One quick question why is the time off by 3 hrs? Its 21:34 now but the time in the email shows 18:34

Cota

08-03-2007, 02:59 AM

php is processed server side, time() gets the servers time, not yours.