email form htm

[janet24]

Is it possible to format the message that is being sent from a form through php code. Right not it's just listing the different fields. Can I add a rule or any other html formatting to the type?

$subject = 'Team CSC Opportunity Registration Form';
$mailcontent = 'Opportunity Name: '.$name."\n"
.'Opportunity Description'."\n"
.'Work Description: '.$work."\n"
.'Opportunity Value: '.$ovalue."\n"

......etc

 

[jpadie]

yes. format as you wish. just make sure to send in html with the right mime content types. consider using phpmailer as this makes life much easier.

 

[janet24]

Do you know where I can find examples of that kind of formatting?

 

[jpadie]

it's just html. so examples are ... the web!

for examples on how to sent html mail within php, look at the phpmailer website (

http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com)

 

[janet24]

When I try to put htm tags in the php code I got this returned in the email....


Opportunity<i>Name</i>: test

 

[jpadie]

then you are not setting the content-type. for goodness sake follow my advice and use phpmailer.

 

[janet24]

I don't have phpmailer installed and the server isn't in this office. Besides I'm sending information to an emai and I also the same form sending information to a database. It all works but I just was told to try to format the type coming back in the email. I don't know what setting the content-type means. I've very new at this.

 

[janet24]

Sorry, I meant I don't have the mail() function installed on my server and the server isn't in the office.

 

[jpadie]

the mail() function is built in to php. i was not aware that it could be uninstalled.

 

[janet24]

I can't combine that code with code for the database.

 

[jpadie]

i have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

why not start again. give lots of information, backed up with code. be explicit: don't assume that the words that you use to describe something are those used by the rest of the php community: instead _explain_ each item and each step you have taken.

if you cannot install phpmailer explain _why_ you cannot. the remoteness of the server should not be a reason as you can always log on to it.

 

[janet24]

Because I have to send the same information to a database from the same form. I don't think phpnmailer does that.

 

[jpadie]

why should phpmailer do that? it's a mail class. it's up to you to write information to a database.

but simply using phpmailer or any other script does not magically evaporate a variable. variables (including superglobals - $_POST etc) are not use once and lose. there is nothing to stop you from sending an email and then reusing the variables to write to a database. Or even, the other way round.

phpmailer is _just_ a php script. it is not a separate application.

 

[janet24]

I figured it out! Thanks....