Sherman IT: July 2014

09 July 2014

How to put online form data in a table, before sending it to an email address?

<?php
$to = "somebody@example.com, somebodyelse@example.com";
$subject = "HTML email";

$message = "
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML email</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This email contains HTML Tags!</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Firstname</th>
<th>Lastname</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>John</td>
<td>Doe</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
";

// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8" . "\r\n";

// More headers
$headers .= 'From: <webmaster@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: myboss@example.com' . "\r\n";

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

Chinese displayed as gibberish

To correctly display Chinese, 4 things should be done –

1. When creating the database, Chinese should be defined –

create database dbsettle character set 'gbk' collate 'gbk_chinese_ci';

use dbsettle;

2. On the web page, in the header section, Chinese should be defined –

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="charset=gbk" />

3. In the programme code, after having connected to the database, Chinese should be defined –

mysql_select_db("dbsettle",$db);

mysql_query("set names gbk", $db);

4. In the sending email section of the code, content type should be defined –

// Always set content-type when sending HTML email

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";

$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=gbk" . "\r\n";

// More headers

$headers .= 'From: xxxx@cicscanada.com' . "\r\n";

// $headers .= 'Cc: myboss@example.com' . "\r\n";

// send mail

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

If all the above is done, then Chinese will correctly be displayed in the email.

How to automatically send an online form to an email address with PHP?

Define SMTP (e.g. Bell) and Port in php.ini.
Use mail function of PHP.