[x]
Posted via EE Mobile

Search, ask, and monitor your questions on the go with EE Mobile. Visit Experts Exchange from your mobile device and never be out of touch again.

Question
[x]
Attachment Details
[x]
The Solution Rating System

With so many solutions, how can you tell which solutions are most likely to help you and which ones are not? To provide you with a tool to use, we rate our solutions based on various elements that most accurately determine if a solution is a quality solution. To explain what factors affect the solution rating, here are the elements we take into consideration when formulating our solution rating.

  • The Grade of the Solution
  • The Zone Rank of the Expert Providing the Solution
  • The Number of Author and Expert Comments
  • The Number of Experts Contributing
  • The Feedback of the Community

Your Input Matters
Because of the way the system is set up, the most important variable in this equation is you. As a member of Experts Exchange, you are able to cast your vote on the quality of the solutions in regard to how complete, accurate, helpful and easy to understand each solution is. When you provide your feedback, each rating is adjusted accordingly. So, if you see a solution that has a poor rating that you think is a good solution, let us know by rating it. As you do, the rating will be adjusted and will become more accurate for other members of our site.

If you have any suggestions that you would like to make for our rating system, please ask a question in the Suggestions Zone of Community Support.

Thank you!

9.3

php email problem -  html / plain text with attachment

Asked by arthur_raft2 in Scripting Languages, PHP Scripting Language

Tags: php mail, email, html mail

Hi , I am having some problem with my php mail scripting.
 
I want an email with HTML and plain text version to be displayed according to the email client - if it has html options on, use html version other wise use text version.

The script works fine with my outlook - which picks up the html version and ignores the text version.

 but in my other online mail client which doesnt have html render turned on, it displays everything from the ob_start(); as plain txt, also my attachement (a pdf file) was displayed as encoding as well.

Is it a problem with my php version on the server? I m currenlty having php 4.3 installed.

Any help will be appreciated.
1:
2:
3:
4:
5:
6:
7:
8:
9:
10:
11:
12:
13:
14:
15:
16:
17:
18:
19:
20:
21:
22:
23:
24:
25:
26:
27:
28:
29:
30:
31:
32:
33:
34:
35:
36:
37:
38:
39:
40:
41:
42:
43:
44:
45:
46:
47:
48:
49:
50:
51:
52:
53:
54:
55:
56:
57:
58:
<?php
$name=$_POST['name'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$producter=$_POST['product'];
$message=$_POST['message'];
 
//define the receiver of the email 
$to = $email;
//define the subject of the email 
$subject = 'Test email with attachment'; 
//create a boundary string. It must be unique 
//so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash 
$random_hash = md5(date('r', time())); 
//define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\n 
$headers = "From: admin@poolexpress.com.au\r\nReply-To: admin@poolexpress.com.au"; 
//add boundary string and mime type specification 
$headers .= "\r\nContent-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"PHP-mixed-".$random_hash."\""; 
//read the atachment file contents into a string,
//encode it with MIME base64,
//and split it into smaller chunks
$attachment = chunk_split(base64_encode(file_get_contents('Zodiac_Tri_Web.pdf'))); 
//define the body of the message. 
ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering 
?> 
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>" 
 
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
 
Hello World!!! 
This is simple text email message. 
 
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
 
<h2>Hello World!</h2> 
<p>This is something with <b>HTML</b> formatting.</p> 
 
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>-- 
 
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>  
Content-Type: pdf; name="Zodiac_Tri_Web.pdf"  
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64  
Content-Disposition: attachment  
 
<?php echo $attachment; ?> 
--PHP-mixed-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>-- 
 
<?php 
//copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer 
$message = ob_get_clean(); 
//send the email 
$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers ) or die ("Mail failed."); 
//if the message is sent successfully print "Mail sent". Otherwise print "Mail failed" 
?>
Attachments:
 
problem displaying plain txt
problem displaying plain txt
 
 
Related Solutions
Keywords: php email problem - html / plain text …
 
Loading Advertisement...
 
[+][-]04/06/09 09:02 PM, ID: 24083864Accepted Solution

View this solution now by starting your 30-day free trial. Setting up your free trial is quick, easy, and secure. We will return you to this solution, unlocked, when you're done.

About this solution

Zones: Scripting Languages, PHP Scripting Language
Tags: php mail, email, html mail
Sign Up Now!
Solution Provided By: ecomm
Participating Experts: 2
Solution Grade: A
 
[+][-]04/07/09 05:01 AM, ID: 24086227Expert Comment

At Experts Exchange, members can ask their questions to thousands of technology professionals, also known as Experts. Experts compete and collaborate to answer those questions by leaving comments like this one.

Start your 30-day free trial to view this Expert Comment or ask the Experts your question.

 
 
Loading Advertisement...
20091111-EE-VQP-92 - Hierarchy / EE_QW_3_20080625