Question

I created a html email welcome.tpl what php mail method do I have to use in order to send out that file as the body of the message? prior to this I’ve been using and including the html and text in variables

$text_content.= "\r\n";
$text_content.= "--------------------------------\r\n";
$html_content.= "</body></html>";

$mime_boundary = 'Multipart_Boundary_x'.md5(time()).'x';

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers.= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"$mime_boundary\"\r\n";
$headers.= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\r\n";

$body = "--$mime_boundary\n";
$body.= "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"charset=us-ascii\"\n";
$body.= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n";
$body.= $text_content;
$body.= "\n\n";

$body.= "--$mime_boundary\n";
$body.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"UTF-8\"\n";
$body.= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n";
$body.= $html_content;
$body.= "\n\n";
$body.= "--$mime_boundary--\n";

$headers.= 'From: So <[e-mail]>' . "\r\n";
$headers.= "X-Sender-IP: $_SERVER[SERVER_ADDR]\r\n";
$headers.= 'Date: '.date('n/d/Y g:i A')."\r\n";
$headers.= 'Reply-To: So <[e-mail]>' . "\r\n";

mail($en['email'], $subject, $body, $headers);

should i be using something like $body = file_get_contents(); and is mail(); the best method?

Answer 1

Use the following code :

// Always set content-type when sending HTML email

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";

and you can also include that
// More headers

$headers .= 'From: <[e-mail]>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: [e-mail]' . "\r\n";

and use

$body = file_get_contents();

and send the mail by mail function:

mail($en['email'], $subject, $body, $headers);