Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I'm trying to encode Hebrew in PHP, when sending automatic mail (using
> UTF-8). I searched and found function mb_encode_mimeheader(), but it
> doesn't work. It sends the mail, but the Hebrew becomes Jibrish. I
> tried to do it using mb_encode_mimeheader(). Here is my mail sending
> code:
>
> <?php
> $tmp_addresses_clone= $tmp_addresses;
>
> $tmp_count= count($tmp_addresses_clone);
> while ($tmp_count > 0)
> {
> $tmp_random= rand(0, $tmp_count - 1);
>
> // Open Mail Command.
> $tmp_mail_command= '/usr/sbin/sendmail -f ' . $tmp_email . '
> ' . $tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_random] . ' > /dev/null 2>&1';
>
> $tmp_mail_file_pointer= popen($tmp_mail_command, "w");
> if ($tmp_mail_file_pointer)
> {
> // Print mail header.
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "From: " .
> mb_encode_mimeheader('"' . $tmp_name . '"', 'UTF-8', 'B', "\n") . ' '
> '<' . $tmp_email . '>' . "\n");
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "To: " .
> $tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_random] . "\n");
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "Subject: " .
> mb_encode_mimeheader($tmp_subject, 'UTF-8', 'B', "\n") . "\n");
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "MIME-Version: 1.0\n");
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset=UTF-8\n");
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "\n");
>
> // Print mail body.
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, $tmp_content . "\n");
> fputs($tmp_mail_file_pointer, "\n");
>
> // Close file.
> pclose($tmp_mail_file_pointer);
> }
>
> echo ($tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_random] . '<br>' . "\n");
> $tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_random]=
> $tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_count - 1];
> unset($tmp_addresses_clone[$tmp_count - 1]);
> $tmp_count= count($tmp_addresses_clone);
> }
> ?>
>
> How do I correctly encode Hebrew in PHP?
>
> By the way, the body of the message looks OK.
>
> I'm using PHP 4, I can't use PHP 5 functions such as iconv_mime_encode().
Usually what needs to be encoded are the headers. It's a simple format,
and base64 [1] for the content, something like:
=?encoding_name?B?bas64_encoded_content_blabla?=
The body itself can be left as utf-8 (specifying the content-type). You
can use the mail() function [2] to send it (configure the program
sending the mail in php.ini). Don't execute sendmail directly (prevents
code portability)
Here's a sample code which worked for me in many projects (php4 included):
$msubj="=?utf-8?B?" . base64_encode($subject) . "?=";
$mextra="From: =?utf-8?B?".base64_encode($from)."?= <".$email.">\n";
$mextra.="Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n\n";
mail($to, $msubj, $mmsg, $utf8_message);
[1] http://il2.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-encode.php
[2] http://il2.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
Cheers
--
Meir Kriheli
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