php mail() problem when sending html mail

[aiwou]

Hello there!

I have a simple emailing function which sends form results as an e-mail. I’m using it as a contact us and I’m trying to make send e-card functionality. Everything works fine (I load picture, text, addresses etc, put it into simple html mail and send). The problem is that I receive the mail from my server email address, not from the one specified in headers.

[php]
$email_from = "[email protected]";
$email_subject = “User $name just sent you this ecard”;
$ecard = "

New ecard from user $name

$message\n
Some footer text...

";

$headers = ‘From: $email_from . \n’;
$headers .= ‘Reply-To: $visitor_email . \n’;
$headers = ‘MIME-Version: 1.0’ . “\n”;
$headers .= ‘Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1’ . “\n”;
$to = “$rec_email”;
$email_body = “$ecard”;

mail($to, $email_subject, $email_body, $headers);
[/php]

First two lines of headers simply don’t work and are overwritten. When I remove the latter two headers, everything works fine (from and reply-to) but the e-mail is displayed as a plain text. I need to send html email but I need to include from and reply-to as well. Any ideas?

I’m new to php, so excuse my ignorance in not getting to right solution myself. Any ideas will be strongly appreciated.

[aiwou]

OK, I tried few more tricks and in the end, I managed to get the right result. Although I don’t understand why…

The solution that worked for me was not to predefine headers but to define them inside the mail() function. So the code which worked for me was:

[php]mail($to, $email_subject, $email_body,
“From: $email_from\n” .
“Reply-To: $visitor_email\n” .
“MIME-Version: 1.0\n” .
“Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1”);[/php]

Although the problem seems to be solved now, I’m still interested why the predeclared headers did not work for me. Anyone has an idea?

[t_catt11]

You were leaving out the period on one of the headers. Instead of concatenating the variable, you were overwriting.

[php]
$headers = “From: $email_from \n”;
$headers .= “Reply-To: $visitor_email \n”;
$headers = “MIME-Version: 1.0 \n”;
$headers .= “Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 \n”;
[/php]

Which means that you were actually only saving the MIME-Version and Content-Type headers - therefore, the server was subbing in defaults for you.

Should be:

[php]
$headers = “From: $email_from \n”;
$headers .= “Reply-To: $visitor_email \n”;
$headers .= “MIME-Version: 1.0 \n”;
$headers .= “Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 \n”;
[/php]

[aiwou]

Thanks dude,

I actually figured out in the morning when I reviewed once again with fresh mind