using the mail function in php

neiljansons · August 15, 2004, 7:46am

I am still very new to php and I am trying to get my head around the mail
function.

If I set the content type to html (Content-type: text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1) I can do basic html.

However if I have any html that requires quotes (eg hrefs) the function will
escape the quotes resulting in html with backslashes through it.

eg. I submit the following using POST from a form to the message variable:

<html><head<title>page title</title>
</head><body>
<img src="http://somwhere.com/images/something.jpg" border="0" width="300" height="200" alt="">
</body></html>

I get this:

<html><head<title>page title</title>
</head><body>
<img src="http://somwhere.com/images/something.jpg" border="0"
width="300" height="200" alt="">
</body></html>

Any ideas?

Thanks
Neil

Bane · August 15, 2004, 12:44pm

Simply use stripslashes on the text coming from the form. It simply a security configuration in PHP that escapes all quotes as a default value to avoid most SQL injection attacks and such.

neiljansons · August 15, 2004, 11:09pm

Thanks for that help.

I didn’t figure I needed to stripslashes when there weren’t any there.

But the other piece of the puzzle was that I had used the example of some other code and had included a header:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

When changing the Content-type to text/html that line needs to be removed.

Neil