Re: mail function and lots of form fields

On Wednesday 17 October 2001 15:38, Richard Baskett wrote: > For the body what I usually do, if you're planning on just a regular text > email, is to make an include file with this type of formatting: I guess you mean I can use an include file in my variable? Like this: $body = newbody.inc Does the variable need to be quoted? I think most likely, but am not sure. I'll check into this more tomorrow at work. -- Chip Wiegand > $body =" > This is the header of the email message > > Greetings $name, > > How are you today, you've spent $amount of dollars in the last $days. > > Thank You! > > Management"; > > In other words when you do something like this you can actually see the > formatting and all the \n's or \r's will be there. I have found this to > bed the easiest way of doing email formatting. I hope it makes sense to > you, if not you can always write me back and Ill have another go at > explaining it :) > > Rick > > > I have a form with around 50 text fields. I have used the mail function > > to send > > forms with simple textarea's, names, and email addresses, but what about > > when > > I have around 50 fields to send? > > I am using the following format for my mails: > > <? > > if(isset($submit)): > > $date = date("M d, Y"); > > $to = "seattle.webmaster@simrad.com"; > > $subject = "Web Site Comments"; > > $body = "On $date\n $name\n ($email) wrote<br><br>" . > > $feedback; > > mail($to, $subject, $body, "From:$email\nContent-Type: text/html; > > charset=iso-8859-1\nMime-Version: 1.0\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion()); > > print("<h3>Thanks for the comments!</h3>\nWe appreciate you > > taking the time to share your thoughts with us."); > > else: > > ?> > > The fields $feedback, $name, $email are from the form, but I have another > > form with around 50 > > fields. Is there an alternative to listing all 50or so fields on that one > > $body line? I'd like > > the final message to have a reasonable amount of formatting to keep the > > many fields sorted out and easy to read. > > -- > > Chip Wiegand > > Computer Services > > www.simradusa.com > > chip.wiegand@simrad.com > > Simrad, Inc > > Lynnwood, WA > > 425-712-1138 > > > > "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." > > --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., > > 1977 > > (-- Then why do I have nine? Somebody help me!) > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- -- Chip W.