[FX.php List] How to send HTML emails in PHP

Thu Jan 24 16:55:46 MST 2008

Well for many HTML is per definition spam.

ggt

2008/1/24, VanBuskirk, Patricia <pvanbuskirk at otc.fsu.edu>:
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> I recently went through a nightmare with this same situation … as some email
> clients are not as forgiving with the code as others!  phpMailer is what I
> used that ended up working.  I'll try to attach it, but not sure if the list
> accepts attachments.  Also, read some rules at
> http://kickasswebdesign.com/wordpress/2007/02/the-new-rules-for-html-email/
> and http://www.anandgraves.com/html-email-guide .. there
> are many if you do a Google search for "html email".
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> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of
> Leo R. Lundgren
>  Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:07 PM
>  To: FX.php Discussion List
>  Subject: Re: [FX.php List] How to send HTML emails in PHP
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> Haven't actually done html mails myself yet, but check out SwiftMailer.org.
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> 24 jan 2008 kl. 21.03 skrev Bob Patin:
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> I've got a client for whom I send automated emails from their website;
> they're asking if I can add their logo to the email. I use something called
> "sock_mail" which was given to me by a consultant, and it's plain-text.
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> Is there an easy way to send an HTML email from PHP? I tried taking some
> HTML and putting it into an email body, but the message comes back as HTML
> code rather than what it's supposed to look like when displayed in an HTML
> email message.
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> Instead of pretty HTML, I received this:
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> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
>  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta
> http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
> /><title>Untitled Document</title></head><body><img
> src="http://www.client.com/images/logo.jpg" width="376"
> height="55" /></body></html>
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> Any help would be mucho appreciated.
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