Whilst trawling through some of my ultra-old posts on various forums I’ve found this nifty little piece of code that enables you to send in both HTML and TEXT form. This is useful for clients that cant display HTML (they will display the text instead). I developed it back in 2007 so it may need updating but its a useful bit of code!
UPDATE: Peter Mills recently emailed me with a problem with this script and compatability with gmail, I have managed to fix this. It seems that gmails parser has gotten even more strict, there were stray line breaks where there shouldnt have been and the initial boundary declaration in the headers was not wrapped properly in double quotes! Cheers for finding this bug Peter and hopefully its all working again now!
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Thanks to Peter Mills for his help in recognising the recent problem the script had with GMail! -------------------------------------------------------------- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. -------------------------------------------------------------- */ /* CHANGES: -- Is Now Compatible With GMail -- Encrypts Messages In Base64 For Easier Transportation -- 03/11/09 - Changed to work with changes in GMail, removed now unnecessary base64 encoding NOTES: -- From experience with different mail services i've discovered some key pointers when sending html or any type of email: * DO NOT link to external CSS stylesheets, most of the time these are either filtered out or do not load properly * As discovered in GMail it strips out any stylesheets completely, even inline ones so you're going to have to use the style='' tags on any div's etc you want to make look pretty * Bear in mind linking to any external resources will bring up a warning on the clients end and they can choose to or not to load external resources. * Keep HTML resources as simple as possible, most of the time they aren't loaded as well as they would in firefox and so can be really mucked up if you do some complicated magic with them. COMING SOON: -- Will be turned into a class making it easier to send emails :) */ # Is the OS Windows or Mac or Linux if (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS,0,3)=='WIN')) { $eol="\r\n"; } elseif (strtoupper(substr(PHP_OS,0,3)=='MAC')) { $eol="\r"; } else { $eol="\n"; } $_emailer_subject = "My First Email Yay!"; //The subject of the email... duh $_emailer_to = "sam@beaver6813.com"; //You can make this even easier for the //email client by specifying the actual name of the person as well, but for //simplicities sake we'll just give the email $_emailer_from = "test@localhost"; //Again, you can do to this what //i said above $_emailer_reply_to = "test@localhost"; $_emailer_cc = ''; //Optional $_emailer_bcc = '';//Optional //Okay what do you want to appear if it displays the plain text version? $email_html = "<h1>HTML E-mail</h1> <p>This is an <b>HTML</b> e-mail.</p>"; //Okay what do you want to appear if it displays the HTML version? $email_plain = "HTML E-mail\n\nThis is the text portion of an HTML e-mail\n"; /* YOU NEED CONFIGURE NOTHING MORE!!!! (Apart from the respond at the very bottom of this script!) */ $_emailer_subject = $_emailer_subject == '' ? 'No Subject' : $_emailer_subject; // Must have a subject if(!empty($_emailer_cc)) $_emailer_cc_do = "Cc: ".substr( $_emailer_cc , 0 , -2 ).$eol; // Remove the trailing ", " if(!empty($_emailer_bcc)) $_emailer_bcc_do = "Bcc: ".substr( $_emailer_bcc , 0 , -2 ).$eol; $_emailer_reply_to = $_emailer_reply_to == '' ? $_emailer_from : $_emailer_reply_to; $mid = md5( uniqid( time() ) ); // Generate a unique id for the email $host = str_replace( 'www' , '' , $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] ); // Remove the www for an "email address" //add From: header $headers = "From: $_emailer_from$eol"; //specify MIME version 1.0 $headers .= "Return-Path: $_emailer_reply_to$eol"; $headers .= "$_emailer_cc_do"; $headers .= "$_emailer_bcc_do"; $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0$eol"; $headers .= "Message-ID: <$mid@$host>$eol"; $headers .= "X-Priority: 3$eol"; $headers .= "X-MSMail-Priority: Normal$eol"; $headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP$eol"; $headers .= "X-MimeOLE: Generated By Beaver6813s MultiPart Mail Script$eol"; $headers .= "Date: " . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s Z' , time() ) . $eol; //unique boundary this can be whatever you want... but try and make it imaginative :) $boundary = uniqid("BEAVER6813"); //tell e-mail client this e-mail contains//alternate versions $headers .= "Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"$boundary\"".$eol.$eol; //plain text version of message $body = "--$boundary".$eol."Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"".$eol."Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit".$eol.$eol; $body .= chunk_split("$email_plain").$eol.$eol; //HTML version of message $body .= "--$boundary".$eol."Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"".$eol."Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable".$eol.$eol; $body .= chunk_split("$email_html").$eol.$eol; # Finished $body .= "--$boundary--".$eol.$eol; // finish with two eol's for better security. //send message $result = mail($_emailer_to, $_emailer_subject, $body, $headers); if($result) { echo "MAIL SENT SUCCESSFULLY. YOU'RE A WINNER!"; } else { echo "SOME WEIRD ERROR :S. YOU LOSE"; } ?> |
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Hey,
This e-mail script does not display e-mails in gmail correctly. It works on other services, but in gmail it seems to be putting spaces in where they dont belong and that is messing up HTML in the email message.
I’ll have a look into it soon, I’m quite busy at the moment so it might take me a week or so to get a fix out. Have a play around with the headers, its most likely that gmail have changed their header recognition.
I had a look at the script and tested it out today, it seems to be working fine, are you sure theres not something wrong in your HTML?