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Asked: 2026-05-24T09:16:25+00:00

I have created a file called ‘userhistoryreport.php’. It will be setup to run once

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I have created a file called ‘userhistoryreport.php’. It will be setup to run once a day. The purpose of the file is to gather contact information and history for users who have interacted with the site for that particular day. The script works, but I am unsure of how to get the results to send to email. The email should be formatted just like the page in the broswer – where each user is listed with their history. Any help is appreciated.

echo '<div style="padding: 0 20px;">';
echo '<span style="display: block; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; margin: 25px 0 -15px 0;"> User Activity on' . $website . 'for' . $date . '</span>';


//query the database for today's history
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM user_history WHERE date = '$date' ORDER by name, time, title") 
or die(mysql_error());
$old_user = '';   

    while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
        $new_user = $row['uid'];
        if ($new_user != $old_user) {
            echo '<br /><br /><hr />' . '<span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">' . $row['name'] . '</span>' . '<br />' . $row['company'] . '<br />' . $row['email'] . '<br />' . $row['phone'] . '<br /><br />'; 
            $old_user = $new_user;
        }
        echo '<ul><li>' . $row['time'] .
        '<ul><li>' . $row['title'] . ' (<a href="' . $row['url'] . '">' . $row['url'] . '</a> )' . '</li></ul>' . '<br /><br />' .
        '</li></ul>';
    }  
echo '</div>';

echo 
'<div style="position: fixed; bottom: 0; height: 40px; width: 100%; margin: 20px 0 0 0; background: #000; color: #FFF; line-height: 40px;">' .
'Report generated ' . $date . ' ' . $time .
'</div>';
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  1. Editorial Team

    Straight from the mail() function in the php manual, try this;

    Put all of your html into a string instead of echoing it immediately, by replacing all your echoes with something like this;

    $message .= '<br /><br /><hr />' . '<span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">' . $row['name'] . '</span>' . '<br />' . $row['company'] . '<br />' . $row['email'] . '<br />' . $row['phone'] . '<br /><br />';           
$message .= '<ul><li>' . $row['time'] .
    '<ul><li>' . $row['title'] . ' (<a href="' . $row['url'] . '">' . $row['url'].     '</a> )' . '</li></ul>' . '<br /><br />' .
    '</li></ul>';

    To display the report, use

    echo $message;

    To mail the report, put this bit after the final closing tag to send the report with html.

     // To send HTML mail, the Content-type header must be set
$headers  = 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1' . "\r\n";

// Additional headers
$headers .= 'To: Mary <mary@example.com>, Kelly <kelly@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Birthday Reminder <birthday@example.com>' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Cc: birthdayarchive@example.com' . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'Bcc: birthdaycheck@example.com' . "\r\n";


// Mail it
mail('your@emailadress.com', 'Report generated ' . $date . ' ' . $time, $message, $headers);
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