html emails

by **joshcxa** on Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:28 am

How do I create those html emails.
You know the ones that look like a website in your inbox.

by **webmaster** on Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:16 am

The only thing that makes an email to be shown as HTML is something called header information. when you send the email, you first declare what kind of document you're sending. Here's an example of a HTML e-mail:

[php]<?php
$to = "johndoe@fakedomain.com";
$from = "janedoe@anotherfakedomain.com";
$subject = "This is a test email";
$message = <<<EOF
<html>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<p align="center">
<b>Hello World!</b>
</p>
</body>
</html>
EOF;

$headers = "From: $from\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";

$success = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
if ($success)
echo "The email to $to from $from was successfully sent";
else
echo "An error occurred when sending the email to $to from $from";
?> [/php]

by **Phate** on Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:05 pm

wow, i never knew you could do that!

by **joshcxa** on Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:57 am

so what do i do with that?

by **webmaster** on Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:22 am

joshcxa wrote:so what do i do with that?

I don't know how to do it with plain html, but with php, you could use the first script I posted.

Just change $to, $from and $subject and $message and you can send a html e-mail.

by **joshcxa** on Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:55 pm

but what i mean is...do i have that code in a seperate file attachted to the email?

by **webmaster** on Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:02 pm

This code sends the e-mail. If you save this code in a file called mailscript.php, upload it to your server and run www.yourdomain.com/mailscript.php it will send a html-mail to the e-mail address in the top of the script.

by **joshcxa** on Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:51 pm

oh ok...but what about for a mailing list type thing?

by **ReFredzRate** on Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:28 pm

joshcxa wrote:oh ok...but what about for a mailing list type thing?

I assume you are talking about a webpage styled e-mail you receive?

by **joshcxa** on Tue Jul 26, 2005 6:04 am

by **joshcxa** on Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:18 pm

heres an easy way

http://www.website101.com/email_e-mail/HTML_email.html

by **dafunkymunky** on Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:57 am

its not possible to send mails using plain html..you need php or asp for that...

by **Phate** on Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:45 pm

that tutorial will work... it is telling you to make a .html, and attach it to any email, IN YOUR PREVIOUS email software

by **joshcxa** on Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:25 am

yeah.
well that seems to work alright for me

by **joshcxa** on Fri Sep 02, 2005 3:33 am

Actually I have changed my mind. I like webmasters way of doing it.

I've tried to make a page where you type in the recipients email into a text field instead of having to change the email in the code like your example. But i've failed. (noob) Any ideas please?

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