Re: Problem with mail()

Martín Marqués writes:

On Sáb 29 Sep 2001 10:47, you wrote:

I am using this simple script: ?PHP global $id, $subject, $news; $database="yisny"; include ("yisny_db.inc"); db_connect ($database); print ("$id"); $query = "select news_id, summary, news from news where news_id=$id"; $result = mysql_query ($query)

       or die ("sorry"); 

$row = mysql_fetch_array ($result); $news =strip_tags(stripslashes($row["news"])); $subject= strip_tags(stripslashes($row["summary"])); $to = "mike@raeinternet.com"; mail($to,$subject,$news, "From: yis <yir@raeinternet.com>"); print ("<a href=/yisny/whatsnew.php>See Events</a>"); ?> Problem is that the from: header ends up in the body of the message.

And what from do you get?

If I change $subject to "subject" (no variable) and $news to "news", headers are fine.

Could have something to do with quotes? Example: mail("martin","a test","this is a "test"","test") which should be: mail("martin","a test","this is a \"test\"","test") but this may not be your problem. I need more info.

I used to pass the variables between multiple html forms as globals and hidden fields and I had no problems until the size of $message became too large. When it grew above 7kb or so the subject header would disappear. At this point I would like to use the above script and have the from: header appear as a header and not in the message body. Running Linux and PHP4.05

You should think about upgrading. Saludos... :-) -- Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera, si podés usar PostgreSQL? -----------------------------------------------------------------

Martín Marqués                  |        mmarques@unl.edu.ar
Programador, Administrador, DBA |       Centro de Telematica
                       Universidad Nacional
                            del Litoral

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