Re: [PHP-DB] Plain-text or HTML?
I have created several successful HTML and text based emails.. Its a secret called multipart MIME.The essence of email really. Just as an attachment is embedded into the same file as the images, html part and textual part. All you have to do is using 2 seperate boundaries, write out a textual [no HTML formatting, etc, use correct newlines etc] version out and then using same content write it into a HTML template version that can include formatting etc..Ensure all images used are also encoded and added as multipart MIME segments.All this can be generally easily done via some email clients themselves. For example Microsoft's Outlook Express does multipart HTML/Text emails.If you just go and create a new email in Outlook and type out your content in HTML format [ensure you've selected Format-Rich Text HTML]Then save it and grab the message source, you will clearly see the boundaries it has defined for the alternative MIME part [the text/html] and the text/plain part. Simply reformat the text/plain part a bit if you want. Voila.. in most cases thats ready to rumble .. use it as an example of how to work it into your own email generation functions in php. Works a charm for me ;-) Good luck, let me know how you go! --- Hi, Thanks for that, now I understand how it works. Seen the code, now I will play with it a bit. Did a few tests and found on some cases the following: 1- Yahoo! Mail is tricky to have HTML emails for, some emails, unless carefully designed, come out dodgy in formation when you view the email in Yahoo! Mail Web Format. 2- Hotmail seems to like HTML and has a better understanding of how to manage the emails in their Mail Live! Program 3- Outlook loves HTML and uses it cutely 4- Another web based email at www.tasmail.com formats funny and opens the html email in an attachment, does not always display good. 5- www.rock.com webmail dislikes HTML even though they claim HTML emails are supported. So the end result is some like some don't, some like to a degree and some don't. There does not seem to be a good solution even with formatting in HTML format. I'm just wondering how companies like Yahoo! and Hotmail send theirs out, tried viewing their source but sometimes their tricky. And being an owner of the servers they have more power over how emails are sent and displayed. Sure they have a source email but they can shade out reply, add more code somewhere hidden etc away from the source area. But their emails seem to come out fine, even when you redirect the emails to a email that does not like HTML a real lot they seem to display as they should. I know of a few programs on the net for plain-text to html emails, but the free ones are not a good solution, not sure of the paid ones. J
Re: [PHP-DB] Plain-text or HTML?
try phpmailer from http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net From: JeRRy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Plain-text or HTML? Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:25:18 +1100 (EST) I have created several successful HTML and text based emails.. Its a secret called multipart MIME.The essence of email really. Just as an attachment is embedded into the same file as the images, html part and textual part. All you have to do is using 2 seperate boundaries, write out a textual [no HTML formatting, etc, use correct newlines etc] version out and then using same content write it into a HTML template version that can include formatting etc..Ensure all images used are also encoded and added as multipart MIME segments.All this can be generally easily done via some email clients themselves. For example Microsoft's Outlook Express does multipart HTML/Text emails.If you just go and create a new email in Outlook and type out your content in HTML format [ensure you've selected Format-Rich Text HTML]Then save it and grab the message source, you will clearly see the boundaries it has defined for the alternative MIME part [the text/html] and the text/plain part. Simply reformat the text/plain part a bit if you want. Voila.. in most cases thats ready to rumble .. use it as an example of how to work it into your own email generation functions in php. Works a charm for me ;-) Good luck, let me know how you go! --- Hi, Thanks for that, now I understand how it works. Seen the code, now I will play with it a bit. Did a few tests and found on some cases the following: 1- Yahoo! Mail is tricky to have HTML emails for, some emails, unless carefully designed, come out dodgy in formation when you view the email in Yahoo! Mail Web Format. 2- Hotmail seems to like HTML and has a better understanding of how to manage the emails in their Mail Live! Program 3- Outlook loves HTML and uses it cutely 4- Another web based email at www.tasmail.com formats funny and opens the html email in an attachment, does not always display good. 5- www.rock.com webmail dislikes HTML even though they claim HTML emails are supported. So the end result is some like some don't, some like to a degree and some don't. There does not seem to be a good solution even with formatting in HTML format. I'm just wondering how companies like Yahoo! and Hotmail send theirs out, tried viewing their source but sometimes their tricky. And being an owner of the servers they have more power over how emails are sent and displayed. Sure they have a source email but they can shade out reply, add more code somewhere hidden etc away from the source area. But their emails seem to come out fine, even when you redirect the emails to a email that does not like HTML a real lot they seem to display as they should. I know of a few programs on the net for plain-text to html emails, but the free ones are not a good solution, not sure of the paid ones. J -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP-DB] Plain-text or HTML?
Hello all, People on this list, is your email client plain-text or HTML supported? I think most email clients come with HTML support, but over the time I have done HTML emails they flop out and not display correctly. Is there a reason for this? Is there a way to send out HTML emails from a PHP script to email clients that will display correctly? Problem I tend to have is at times I write the HTML, test it on a webpage. Send it to my email clients shows well but on others like Yahoo! etc it shows crap. Than at times Yahoo! shows fine and other clients crap! Is there tag/codes needed to sort it out? Or is it just a tricky thing? Yahoo!, Hotmail is HTML based WWW clients so I guess you need to get your tables spot on that matches theirs to align correctly? Just need input on this! Thanks! J
[PHP-DB] Plain-text or HTML?
Hello all, People on this list, is your email client plain-text or HTML supported? I think most email clients come with HTML support, but over the time I have done HTML emails they flop out and not display correctly. Is there a reason for this? Is there a way to send out HTML emails from a PHP script to email clients that will display correctly? Problem I tend to have is at times I write the HTML, test it on a webpage. Send it to my email clients shows well but on others like Yahoo! etc it shows crap. Than at times Yahoo! shows fine and other clients crap! Is there tag/codes needed to sort it out? Or is it just a tricky thing? Yahoo!, Hotmail is HTML based WWW clients so I guess you need to get your tables spot on that matches theirs to align correctly? Just need input on this! Thanks! J
Re: [PHP-DB] Plain-text or HTML?
I have created several successful HTML and text based emails.. Its a secret called multipart MIME. The essence of email really. Just as an attachment is embedded into the same file as the images, html part and textual part. All you have to do is using 2 seperate boundaries, write out a textual [no HTML formatting, etc, use correct newlines etc] version out and then using same content write it into a HTML template version that can include formatting etc.. Ensure all images used are also encoded and added as multipart MIME segments. All this can be generally easily done via some email clients themselves. For example Microsoft's Outlook Express does multipart HTML/Text emails. If you just go and create a new email in Outlook and type out your content in HTML format [ensure you've selected Format-Rich Text HTML] Then save it and grab the message source, you will clearly see the boundaries it has defined for the alternative MIME part [the text/html] and the text/plain part. Simply reformat the text/plain part a bit if you want. Voila.. in most cases thats ready to rumble .. use it as an example of how to work it into your own email generation functions in php. Works a charm for me ;-) Good luck, let me know how you go! ---oOo--- Allowing users to execute CGI scripts in any directory should only be considered if: ... a.. You have no users, and nobody ever visits your server. ... Extracted Quote: Security Tips - Apache HTTP Server ---oOo--- --oOo---oOo-- Julien Bonastre [The_RadiX] The-Spectrum Network CEO ABN: 64 235 749 494 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.the-spectrum.org --oOo---oOo-- - Original Message - From: JeRRy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-db@lists.php.net Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 2:25 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] Plain-text or HTML? Hello all, People on this list, is your email client plain-text or HTML supported? I think most email clients come with HTML support, but over the time I have done HTML emails they flop out and not display correctly. Is there a reason for this? Is there a way to send out HTML emails from a PHP script to email clients that will display correctly? Problem I tend to have is at times I write the HTML, test it on a webpage. Send it to my email clients shows well but on others like Yahoo! etc it shows crap. Than at times Yahoo! shows fine and other clients crap! Is there tag/codes needed to sort it out? Or is it just a tricky thing? Yahoo!, Hotmail is HTML based WWW clients so I guess you need to get your tables spot on that matches theirs to align correctly? Just need input on this! Thanks! J No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.384 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 10/03/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.384 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/279 - Release Date: 10/03/2006 -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
