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HTML Formatting Using Heredoc and Mail()

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csatterwhite

csatterwhite

Programmer
Aug 4, 2010
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Here's the line of code I am using:

Code: 
$message = <<<EMAIL
<html>
<body>
<h1 style="background:#546D81; color:#ffffff; font-size:14px; padding:10px;">$subject</h1>
<p style="font-size:12px;"><strong>From:</strong> $firstname $lastname</p>
<p style="font-size:12px;"><strong>Sender Email:</strong>$email</p>
<h2 style="font-size:12px;">Comments:</h2>
<p style="font-size:11px;">$comments</p>
</body>
</html>
EMAIL;

The formatting shows up in gmail (as an example) but does not show in Outlook or Mac OS X Entourage.

I am also setting headers like so:

Code: 
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\r\n";

Any ideas?
 
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how mail clients handle html messages is entirely idiosyncratic. it's not a php question.
 
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The question was not how email clients handle email (I understand the idiosyncrasies), the question was a php question because I wasn't sure if there was something wrong with the code or something I was leaving out that maybe someone here knew of.

It makes sense if Google is picking it up with proper formatting the codes working, I wasn't sure because of using heredoc instead of normal variables to set the HTML was there something I was missing.

I'll keep looking elsewhere. Thanks.

=======================
Carl Satterwhite
Visual Designer
 
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I think I have narrowed it down to something to do with:


"quoted_printable_encode"


Does anyone have any experience with this and how to implement on above code?

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Carl Satterwhite
Visual Designer
 
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there is nothing wrong with the code and I do not believe that the encoding of the text will make any difference to the formatting.

if you wish to have the best chance at presenting consistently across mail clients then i suggest you turn to phpmailer.

 
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I don't know if this helps you at all, but I define the first line of headers (IE '=' only), then "sub-define" the rest (IE '.='). Here's what my code looks like, and when I send an email it works in outlook, web based clients (gmail), outlook express, etc...

Code: 
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "From: <" . $_SESSION['web_email'] . ">" . "\r\n";
			"Reply-To: " . $_SESSION['web_email'] . "" . "\r\n" .

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