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**timgolding** · Apr 5, 2009, 04:34 PM

It doesnt matter which doctype you use. I generally use XHTML. But its upto you.

What do you mean html email? You can't get html to send email. Or is it an html form you want that will send the data to another script via post. Or maybe just an html link to an email e.g

Code:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Email</a>

Which is the closest thing HTML has to email. Which is a bad idea if you don't want to recieve spam. In any case you doctype is irrelevant. The doctype only effects how the syntax of your code should be and how a browser will interpret your code.

**Inigoesdr** · Apr 5, 2009, 04:55 PM

Originally posted by timgolding View Post

What do you mean html email? You can't get html to send email. Or is it an html form you want that will send the data to another script via post. Or maybe just an html link to an email e.g

Code:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Email</a>

Which is the closest thing HTML has to email. Which is a bad idea if you don't want to recieve spam. In any case you doctype is irrelevant. The doctype only effects how the syntax of your code should be and how a browser will interpret your code.

Perhaps you misunderstood. The OP wants to send email in HTML format(versus text format). See example #4 of the mail() function in the PHP manual.

Originally posted by jeddi View Post

Is the doctype I used OK or is their a special one for emails ?

As a general rule you shouldn't -need- a doctype for sending emails because most email clients tend to use a combination of HTML4 - loose. Some of them ignore or strip the doctype anyway, so you shouldn't need one. Just keep your layout as simple as possible to avoid problems.

Originally posted by jeddi View Post

Should I use all that meta tag stuff of is it unnecessary ?

All of the search stuff is unnecessary.. you can keep the content-types, expiration, and things of that nature.

**timgolding** · Apr 5, 2009, 06:15 PM

Oops sorry. Didn't think that one through.

**jeddi** · Apr 6, 2009, 09:26 AM

OK, thanks for that.

I remember reading somewhere that with an html email, you should also
send a text only version.

Is that true ? How do I do it. ?

So this is my code so far:

Are the headers correct for what I am trying to do ?

PHP Code:


$headers ="MIME-Version:1.0\r\n";

$headers .="content-type:text/html; Charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

$headers .= "From: " . "$fm_name" . "<" . "$fm_email" . ">\n";

$headers .= "Return-Path: <" . "$to" . ">\n";

$headers .= "Error-To: <" . "$to" . ">\n";

$headers .= "X-Sender: <" . "$to" . ">\n";

$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion()."\n";





// subject

$subject= nl2br($subject);

   

$message=nl2br($message);

$message=eml_bbcode($message);



$message = "

<html>

<head>

<title> a title</title>

<meta name="audience" content="all">

<meta name="revisit-after" content="4 Days">

<meta name="robots" content="all, index, follow">

<meta name="copyright" content="mysite.com">

<meta name="Rating" content="General">

<meta name="Language" content="en">

<meta name="distribution" content="global">

<meta name="classification" content="internet marketing">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">

</head>

<body>".$message."

</body>

</html>

";  





mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

So how or where do I add a text version and
are my headers correct ?

Thanks

**oesxyl** · Apr 6, 2009, 09:41 AM

Originally posted by jeddi View Post

OK, thanks for that.

I remember reading somewhere that with an html email, you should also
send a text only version.

Is that true ? How do I do it. ?

mail is a distinct protocol is plain text and have nothing to do with html.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php

multipart mime message can include a text/html part
you can find here a simple explanation how you can do:

http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/s...emailpart1.php

best regards

**jeddi** · Apr 6, 2009, 10:32 AM

OK, thanks I read info from the links you gave me.

Just one question,

in my headers ( here ) :

Code:

$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: ' . "$fm_name" . "<" . "$fm_email" . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: <" . "$to" . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "Error-To: <" . "$to" . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Sender: <" . "$to" . ">\r\n";
$headers .= "X-Mailer: PHP v".phpversion()."\r\n";

Shouldn't the Return-Path be the $fm_email
rather than the $to meail address ?

Same goes for Error-To and X-Sender doesn't it ?

I copied these headers from somewhere, but
it doesn't look right to me - what do you guys think ?

I am new to this so would appreciate an experienced
input on this

Thanks

**MemeDeveloper** · Apr 6, 2011, 01:05 AM

timgolding ? did you read the post?

@timgolding ?

The poster clearly states that they want to send an html email and that they don't know which DOCTYPE declaration to use (or if they should include one at all) and if so whether to include meta tags etc.

Why do you assume the poster is as confused as you seem to be.

In any case you doctype is irrelevant

It is not irrelevant at all. e.g. from

http://www.emailonacid.com

Warning Line 1, Column 1: missing <!DOCTYPE> declaration

So in answer to the poster's actual question (as opposed to whatever you want to pretend you read) :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4...ting-html-mail

...should help, but basically - most email clients will ignore the doctype, but just because they do whatever they want does not mean we all should. So include a doctype that matches your html (and potentially css), no point using meta tags in an email though (as far as I can see).

Good luck.

Originally posted by timgolding View Post

It doesnt matter which doctype you use. I generally use XHTML. But its upto you.

What do you mean html email? You can't get html to send email. Or is it an html form you want that will send the data to another script via post. Or maybe just an html link to an email e.g

Code:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Email</a>

Which is the closest thing HTML has to email. Which is a bad idea if you don't want to recieve spam. In any case you doctype is irrelevant. The doctype only effects how the syntax of your code should be and how a browser will interpret your code.

**MemeDeveloper** · Apr 6, 2011, 01:08 AM

Apologies to @timgolding

I myself only just read whole thread and saw your apology for not reading the OP properly. whoops.

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