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[nycphp-talk] How to override header info in mail

Phil Powell soazine at erols.com
Sat Nov 30 14:52:12 EST 2002


NEver mind, fixed, thanx!!!

Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Powell" <soazine at erols.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at nyphp.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] How to override header info in mail


> Ok, taking out the header() part and doing this:
>
> if (!mail($to, $subject, $body, "From: " . $from . "\\r\
Content-type " .
> $contentType)) {..}
>
> Did not produce an error, however, the email format remained unchanged
when
> I tested it by changing "HTML" to "Plain Text" in my form.. sorry, that
did
> nothing.
>
> What I'm trying to do is to ensure that if you click onto the "Plain Text"
> radio button that the email that is sent will be plain text, not HTML.
>
> URL: http://valsignalandet.com/ and then click onto the "Recommend" link
at
> the top if you want to see it in action
>
> Phil
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sterling Hughes" <sterling at bumblebury.com>
> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at nyphp.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 2:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] How to override header info in mail
>
>
> > > I am using this line:
> > >
> > > if (!mail($to, $subject, $body, "From: " . $from . ";" .
> header("Content-type " . $contentType))) {..}
> > >
> > > to use the mail() function in PHP to send simple text/plain or
text/html
> email.  However, upon attempting to send I get a warning message
indicating
> that header information has already been set prior to emailing.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to overwrite only certain header information prior to
> emailing to ensure the content-type of the email being either text/plain
or
> text/html?
> > >
> >
> > you shouldn't be calling the header function - header() is meant to
> > set HTTP Headers (also, mail headers are not delimited by a semi-colon,
> > but by carriage return, newline).
> >
> > -Sterling
> >
> >
> > > Just wondering
> > > Thanx
> > > Phil
> > >
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