all you have to do is after accepting the variables just send them to foo.php. //you can skip this file. its only for the purpose of showing which variables are to be used <?php //building up the html $html = "<HTML><head><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Language\" content=\"en-us\"><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=windows-1252\"><meta name=\"GENERATOR\" content=\"Microsoft FrontPage 4.0\"><meta name=\"ProgId\" content=\"FrontPage.Editor.Document\"><title></title></head>"; $html .="<body bgcolor="; $html .="$back_color"; $html .="$sender_name"; //displaying the html file echo $html; blah blah blah //sending the variables to foo.php echo "<form method=\"POST\" action='foo.php'>"; echo "<input type=\"HIDDEN\" name=\"sender_name\" value='$sender_name'>"; echo "<input type=\"HIDDEN\" name=\"sender_email\" value='$sender_email'>"; echo "<input type=\"HIDDEN\" name=\"recip_name\" value='$recip_name'>"; echo "<input type=\"HIDDEN\" name=\"recip_email\" value='$recip_email'>"; echo "<input type=\"HIDDEN\" name=\"pic_select\" value='$pic_select'>"; echo "<input type=\"HIDDEN\" name=\"back_color\" value='$back_color'>"; echo "<input type=\"HIDDEN\" name=\"html\" value='$html'>"; ?> **************************************************************************** *************************************** //foo.php **************************************************************************** **************************************** <?php include('html_mime_mail.class'); //picture filename $filename = $pic_select; $backgrnd = fread($fp = fopen($filename, 'r'), filesize($filename)); fclose($fp); $mail = new html_mime_mail("X-Mailer: anything u want\n"); $text = ' '; $mail->add_html_image($back_color, $pic_select, 'image/jpeg'); $mail->add_html($html, $text); $mail->build_message(); $mail->send($recip_name, $recip_email, $sender_name, $sender_email, 'Sub: Hi'); ?> _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]