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I have created a form and am emailing it via php.

If I use plain text I can get all the entered information to email correctly. However, I wanted to have the information from the form laid out in html so that I can make it look like a completed document staff would normally see instead of just a series of lines with text.

I have tried a number of different combinations to get this to work but am getting nowhere fast!

Here is what I have so far:

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 $deptname = $_POST['deptname'] ;

$add1 = $_POST['add1'] ;

etc
 
$message = '
 
<html>

<body>
 
Department Name: <?php $deptname ?>

Address: <?php $add1 ?>

etc
 
mail($to, $message, $headers )
 
</body>

</html>

';

I am receiving the email in HTML with the "Department Name:" part displayed but the user entered value is blank...

I'm fairly new to both html and php and cannot seem to find how to get this working so that I can apply the layout and formatting!!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Carl

Sep 14 '10 #1

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I'm too tired to write an explanation, so just look at this example.

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<?php
 
// Ignore that I'm doing no sanity-checking here

$name = $_POST['name'];

$age  = $_POST['age'];
 
$message = <<<MAIL

  Name: $name

  Age:  $age

MAIL;
 
// $to and $headers would have to be defined

if ( mail($to, $message, $headers) )

  echo "Message sent successfully.";

else

  echo "Message not sent successfully.";

References:
http://php.net/variables
http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php
http://php.net/heredoc
http://php.net/mail

Sep 14 '10 #2

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New Member

Thank you soooooo much Marcus!

Thats working perfectly!
I've been trying to figure that out for too long.

Thanks again

Carl

Sep 14 '10 #3

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You're welcome.

Sep 14 '10 #4

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