HTML Mail

External Since: May 08, 2006 Posts: 5

How may I setup a proper HTML mail message with embedded href links
using PHP, that follows all the MIME rules? Any examples or links would
be appreciated.

Thanks!

External Since: Apr 21, 2006 Posts: 16

"J Huntley Palmer" wrote in message

| How may I setup a proper HTML mail message with embedded href links
| using PHP, that follows all the MIME rules? Any examples or links would
| be appreciated.

many will post links to full-featured php mailer classes...they tend to be
over-blown. here's what i use...if you understand the rfc, modifying the
code below is easily done so that this can handle attachements as well.
actually, this already has an attachement in it...you would use the same
methodology as seen when a logo is added to the below.

hth,

me

======== email.class.php (php 5)

// $dropDirectory w/b like 'c:/inetpub/mailroot/pickup/' for iis on windows
// anywhere you'd like for unix
// $exec w/b if php shelled out to sendmail, qmail, or whatever.

<?
class email
{
static function send(
$to ,
$from ,
$cc = '' ,
$bcc = '' ,
$subject ,
$text ,
$html = '' ,
$companyName = '' ,
$logo = null ,
$dropDirectory = '' ,
$exec = null
)
{
// prevent email injection hacks
$subject = preg_replace("/\nfrom\:.*?\n/i" , "", $subject);
$subject = preg_replace("/\nbcc\:.*?\n/i" , "", $subject);
$subject = preg_replace("/\ncc\:.*?\n/i" , "", $subject);
$text = preg_replace("/\nfrom\:.*?\n/i" , "", $text);
$text = preg_replace("/\nbcc\:.*?\n/i" , "", $text);
$text = preg_replace("/\ncc\:.*?\n/i" , "", $text);
$html = preg_replace("/\nfrom\:.*?\n/i" , "", $html);
$html = preg_replace("/\nbcc\:.*?\n/i" , "", $html);
$html = preg_replace("/\ncc\:.*?\n/i" , "", $html);
//
$messageHtml = $html;
$html = '
<html>
<style>
body
{
background-color : #FFFFFF;
color : black;
font-family : verdana, tahoma, arial, times new
roman, sans-serif;
font-size : 8pt;
padding : 2px;
text-align : left;
}
hr
{
background-color : lightsteelblue;
border : 0px;
color : lightsteelblue;
height : 1px;
}
table
{
border-collapse : collapse;
border-padding : 2px;
border-width : 0px;
border-spacing : 0px;
width : 700px;
}
td
{
background-color : #FFFFFF;
color : black;
font-family : verdana, tahoma, arial,
"times new roman", sans-serif;
font-size : 8pt;
margin : 5px;
padding-left : 5px;
padding-right : 5px;
spacing : 0px;
text-align : left;
vertical-align : top;
}
th
{
background-color : lavender;
color : black;
font-family : verdana, tahoma, arial,
"times new roman", sans-serif;
font-size : 8pt;
font-weight : bold;
margin : 5px;
text-align : left;
}
</style>
<body>
';
if (isset($logo))
{
$file = @fopen($logo, 'r');
$image = @fread($file, filesize($logo));
$image = @chunk_split(base64_encode($image));
@fclose($file);
unset($file);
$html .= '
<img alt="' . $companyName . '" border="0px"
src="cid:logo" style="float:right;">
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br clear="all">
';
}
if ($messageHtml == ''){ $messageHtml = $text; }
$html .= $messageHtml . '</body></html>';
$boundry = '----=' . md5(uniqid(rand()));
$related = '----=' . md5(uniqid(rand()));
$mail = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$mail .= "TO: " . $to . "\r\n";
$mail .= "FROM: " . $from . "\r\n";
$mail .= "CC: " . $cc . "\r\n";
$mail .= "BCC: " . $bcc . "\r\n";
$mail .= "Subject: " . $subject . "\r\n";
$mail .= "content-type: multipart/related;
boundary=\"$related\"\r\n\r\n\r\n";
$mail .= "--$related\r\n";
$mail .= "content-type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=\"$boundry\"\r\n\r\n\r\n";
$mail .= "--$boundry\r\n";
$mail .= "content-type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
$mail .= "content-transfer-encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";
$mail .= $text . "\r\n\r\n";
$mail .= "--$boundry\r\n";
$mail .= "content-type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\r\n";
$mail .= "content-transfer-encoding: 8bit\r\n\r\n";
$mail .= $html . "\r\n\r\n";
$mail .= "--$boundry--\r\n\r\n";
$mail .= "--$related\r\n";
$mail .= "content-type: image/jpeg\r\n";
$mail .= "content-id: logo\r\n";
$mail .= "content-disposition: attachment;
filename=\"logo.jpg\"\r\n";
$mail .= "content-transfer-encoding: base64\r\n\r\n";
$mail .= $image . "\r\n\r\n";
$mail .= "--$related--\r\n\r\n";
$mail .= "-- End --\r\n";
$fileName = $dropDirectory . md5(uniqid(rand())) . '.eml';
$file = fopen($fileName, 'wb');
fwrite($file, $mail);
fclose($file);
unset($file);
if (!isset($exec)){ return $mail; }
exec($exec . $fileName);
return $mail;
}
}
?>