[PHP] mail() silly question
I have a question that might be too silly for those of you who are PHP gurus. Here it comes: I had a mail (specifically in the headers) function call like this: $header = ; $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; $header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n; $header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n; $header .= Reply-To: .utf8_decode($nombreVar). .utf8_decode($apellidosVar).$mailVar\r\n; $header .= X-Mailer: PHP/.phpversion().\r\n; $header .= X-Priority: 1; and the mail(...) function always returned TRUE, but the mail was NOT sent. After hours of... trial/error debugging, I noticed from an example that it should be: $header = ; $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . \r\n; $header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . \r\n; $header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . \r\n; $header .= Reply-To: .utf8_decode($nombreVar). .utf8_decode($apellidosVar).$mailVar\r\n; $header .= X-Mailer: PHP/.phpversion().\r\n; $header .= X-Priority: 1; Question: Why? What's the real difference between $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . \r\n; and $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ? If somebody knows, please let me know! Thank you in advance. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] mail() silly question
Hi,
Question:
Why? What's the real difference between
$header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . \r\n;
and
$header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
Your second declaration is incorrect: you start with a single quote ('),
and you end with a double ().
So, you'd say ok, let's fix it:
$header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]';
BUT, special chars like \n or \r need to be inside a double-quoted
string in order to be taken into account.
This one is then correct:
$header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . \r\n;
This one as well:
$header .= From: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
Ludovic André
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Re: [PHP] mail() silly question
On 9/1/07, Rodrigo Poblanno Balp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question that might be too silly for those of you who are PHP gurus. Here it comes: I had a mail (specifically in the headers) function call like this: $header = ; $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; $header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n; $header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n; $header .= Reply-To: .utf8_decode($nombreVar). .utf8_decode($apellidosVar).$mailVar\r\n; $header .= X-Mailer: PHP/.phpversion().\r\n; $header .= X-Priority: 1; and the mail(...) function always returned TRUE, but the mail was NOT sent. After hours of... trial/error debugging, I noticed from an example that it should be: $header = ; $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . \r\n; $header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . \r\n; $header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . \r\n; $header .= Reply-To: .utf8_decode($nombreVar). .utf8_decode($apellidosVar).$mailVar\r\n; $header .= X-Mailer: PHP/.phpversion().\r\n; $header .= X-Priority: 1; Question: Why? What's the real difference between $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . \r\n; and $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Actually that's a parse error ;) You have a single quote at the start and double at the end. Anyway, the reason is interpolation. See http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php Under Single quoted: .. escape sequences for special characters will not be expanded when they occur in single quoted strings. So you end up with a literal '\r\n' at the end of the line, not an actual carriage return newline that you expect. -- Postgresql php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] mail() silly question
no difference bastien Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 08:00:11 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] mail() silly question I have a question that might be too silly for those of you who are PHP gurus. Here it comes: I had a mail (specifically in the headers) function call like this: $header = ; $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; $header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n; $header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n; $header .= Reply-To: .utf8_decode($nombreVar). .utf8_decode($apellidosVar).\r\n; $header .= X-Mailer: PHP/.phpversion().\r\n; $header .= X-Priority: 1; and the mail(...) function always returned TRUE, but the mail was NOT sent. After hours of... trial/error debugging, I noticed from an example that it should be: $header = ; $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . \r\n; $header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . \r\n; $header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . \r\n; $header .= Reply-To: .utf8_decode($nombreVar). .utf8_decode($apellidosVar).\r\n; $header .= X-Mailer: PHP/.phpversion().\r\n; $header .= X-Priority: 1; Question: Why? What's the real difference between $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . \r\n; and $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ? If somebody knows, please let me know! Thank you in advance. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php _ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vistamkt=en-USform=QBRE -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] mail() silly question
As a general rule, use ' ' for literal strings and for strings you want escaped characters and such to take effect. Example: echo 'foo\nbar' will echo foo\nbar where as echo foo\nbar will echo foo bar Hope this helped. Brian Seymour Zend Certified Engineer AeroCoreProductions http://www.aerocore.net/ Cell: (413) 335-2656 -Original Message- From: Rodrigo Poblanno Balp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 9:00 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] mail() silly question I have a question that might be too silly for those of you who are PHP gurus. Here it comes: I had a mail (specifically in the headers) function call like this: $header = ; $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; $header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n; $header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n; $header .= Reply-To: .utf8_decode($nombreVar). .utf8_decode($apellidosVar).$mailVar\r\n; $header .= X-Mailer: PHP/.phpversion().\r\n; $header .= X-Priority: 1; and the mail(...) function always returned TRUE, but the mail was NOT sent. After hours of... trial/error debugging, I noticed from an example that it should be: $header = ; $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . \r\n; $header .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . \r\n; $header .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . \r\n; $header .= Reply-To: .utf8_decode($nombreVar). .utf8_decode($apellidosVar).$mailVar\r\n; $header .= X-Mailer: PHP/.phpversion().\r\n; $header .= X-Priority: 1; Question: Why? What's the real difference between $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' . \r\n; and $header .= 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ? If somebody knows, please let me know! Thank you in advance. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
